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Windows live mail rubbish?

Nov 19, 2009 5:52PM PST

I have two laptops. One is a HP Compaq with Vista home basic. The other a new Toshiba with Win 7. On the HP I have windows mail which works very well. On the other this Windows live mail rubbish!

I have noticed that I am not receiving a lot of my messages on the WLM yet ALL on the WM. Also I notice that if I reply to a message that has arrived on WLM I do not get a copy always in the sent items box!

What is going on. I want my WM back. Any help appreciated please.
Regards

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Re: Windows (live) mail
Nov 19, 2009 6:29PM PST

Windows Mail was bundled with Vista indeed.

But Windows 7 has no bundled email, so you have to download an email program yourself. Microsoft recommends using Windows Live Mail, of course. Some users prefer MS Outlook or a third party mail client like Thunderbird. Others like Windows Live Mail. It's just a personal preference.

You can't get Windows Mail on Windows 7. Forget about that. Choose any other email program you like.

However, using the same pop3-account from 2 different PC's is tricky, to say the least. You noticed such already. Pop3 downloads message to the PC so they are gone for others (unless you set the account to 'leave on server'). And you'll never see any sent mail on any other machine than you sent it from.
The only advice that can be given here: switch to full webmail based mail if you want to be able to access all your mails from all your PC's and laptops (and other PC's) and forget about pop3.

Kees

Kees

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Windows live mail
Nov 19, 2009 6:41PM PST

Thanks but still confused Why am I not receiving all my emails on WLM? I have requested that copies of my messages are left on the servers. As far as I can see WLM serves no usefull purpose at all. Is the anyway to download messages from the servers to check what's there?
Rgds

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Re: WLM
Nov 19, 2009 6:49PM PST

If the other client leaves everything on the server, WLM should get a copy indeed. Not clear from your post why it doesn't.

If your ISP offers a webbased interface (most do) you can use that to have a look at your mailboxes.

Kees

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Outlook option
Nov 20, 2009 1:48AM PST
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WLM
Nov 20, 2009 2:17AM PST

Thanks Tara but I am neither a Software developer or IT professional?

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Open to general public
Nov 20, 2009 6:00AM PST

The Beta version is available for the general public, you don't have to be a developer or IT professional. It is just one alternative to purchasing MS Outlook, which you can do. Or use a webclient like Live mail, just use your browser to connect.

Cheers,
Tara

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A little bit off-topic for this thread about mail programs
Nov 20, 2009 6:21AM PST

in Windows 7, but I wonder if it is worthwhile (or worth the money when it's no longer a beta) for the average homeuser to upgrade to Office 2010. I understand the main focus is on server integration.

At work I'm using Office XP, but they upgraded Outlook to 2007 for some reason. But (apart from another look) I'm doing exactly the same things with it as I did with Outlook XP (send, receive and answer mails, put them in archive folders and manage my calendar). I can't imagine an Outlook upgrade would make sense to me if I happened to use the program at home (but I don't, we stick to Outlook Express for some reason).

I think the same goes for Word, Excel and Powerpoint, which I do use at home (the 2003 version). I've never heard my daughter complaining that she can't write the essays for her study even with Word 2000. But, in fact, I did hear complaining my son when his new laptop came with Word 2007, because he couldn't find anything. Well, I think he got used to it by now.

By the way, I wouldn't advocate using a trial or a beta for mail if you don't plan to keep using the final paid version. You risk it's too much work to move all your mails and contact data to another application. Mail is something else in that respect than a word processor or a spreadsheet (as long as the replacement can edit the original documents).

Kees

Kees

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Disapearing mail
Nov 20, 2009 6:34AM PST

I found a lot of my mail seemed to disapear when I downloaded the latest version also, I found it in the spam folder!

It seems to be reporting a lot more as spam than previous versions.