Hi
Many thanks for your message.
The error is as below. I now cannot receive emails either!
The same is for my husbands account - it tries to send/receive but then
comes up as failed with timeout error.

A time-out occurred while communicating with the server.

Subject ''
Server: 'smtp.talktalk.net'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC19
Protocol: SMTP
Port: 25
Secure(SSL): No

Any help appreciated!
Karen

"Gary VanderMolen [MVP]" wrote:

> What exactly does "status changed to failed" look like?
> Do you get an error message when you try to send? If so,
> right-click on your error message, copy, then paste it into a reply here.
> We can't do much troubleshooting without the complete error message.
>
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> Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
> Microsoft MVP Program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
>
> "Karen" <Karen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BF56B7CC-B412-46CE-A69B-9094AAA86841@microsoft.com...
> > Hi! I am new to live mail and for the first week or so emails worked fine.
> > Now I cannot send emails but can receive them. It is a talktalk account and
> > using Windows 7. When I send an email it stays in outbox and it attempts to
> > send but the green bar does not progress and then I get status changed to
> > failed. I have tried shutting down and restarting etc but to no avail.
> > There are no attachments in the emails waiting to be sent. I have checked my
> > server requires authentication. It worked fine until a few days ago! Can
> > anyone help please???
> .
>