For starters, Gmail really wants you to use port 465 with SSL. While Gmail
will also accept incoming connections to port 587 with STARTTLS, Windows
Live Mail, like MS Outlook Express, can't be configured to use STARTTLS on
any port other than port 25. But the Gmail instructions are very explicit:
Either port 465 w/SSL, or port 587 w/TLS.
MSN should work with the DeltaSync protocol. Comcast may block port 25
(though, with a new account, you probably haven't been up long enough to
catch a spamming 'bot, which is what causes Comcast to impose port 25
blocks).
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum