Hi wienerfish,

Could you please provide some more info regarding your issue? I'm sure if you can give us an idea of what is going on then someone can make a suggestion as to what is wrong and perhaps offer a solution. Have you scanned your system for viruses and other malware? Are any other programs exhibiting strange behavior?

~dsopro

A bit more information FYI:

The term "driver" generally refers to a piece of software which operates a piece of hardware (eg, video driver, disk driver). As Windows Mail is a piece of software, it most likely does not (directly) rely on any particular driver to operate. If, for example, your Network Interface's driver is not functioning, it would of course affect your ability to send and receive emails but none of your applications would be able to access the internet and therefore it wouldn't directly be related to Windows Mail. Applications often use general libraries to perform a variety of functions and it is possible that one of these libraries is corrupted (which is what I think you are hinting at). A program which uses a corrupt dynamically linked library (DLL; a library linked at runtime rather than compile time) should provide some kind of an error message indicating the library which it is trying to link against so we would have a pretty good starting place.

There is no "driver" for a software program, and Windows Mail is a software program.  Windows Mail is part of the Vista Operating System (and you should have posted your problem in the Vista Software section).

What problem are you having with mail?  What type of ISP connection do you have?  Broadband? dial-up? and what ISP if it's dial up?