Please post here if you are able to send with no phantom messages. Because I still cannot.
Under incredimail, I deleted the hotmail account and manually installed it again, because it makes no difference WHAT you call Hotmail. That name is for your information, so you know what e-mail program is your default and which ones are not. What matters most are the pop3 PORT settings. Under the old http hotmail settings, I still get the 29 phantom message hungup error. But, under the Pop3 Incoming server, I am able to download e-mail with no phantom error messages. I am only getting the error message when downloading from the http hotmail server [Incredimail error #28 is for the http server].
Right now, I cannot get Port 25 with the setting: smtp.live.com to work for Incredimail, Outlook Express, or Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.
I can only send AND received hotmail mesages under Incredimail by using the http server setting. And when I do that, the 29 phantom messages appear and I get incredimail error #28.