Outlook Email

Oblivion

photodgm wrote: »

Also I'm using Windows Live Mail 2011 which according to the email is no longer supported and I will have to update to Windows 8/8.1/10 and use the Mail app. Or I could log in via outlook.com.

You prompted me to check. I could have sworn I had WLM 2012 on my W7 workstation but I'm surprised to find it's only 2011. If it's no longer supported I may have to update to 2012 anyway.

molerat

RumRat wrote: »

Thunderbird is simple to set up. You can download it and give it a go without getting rid of your current methods. You can run two email clients together without doing any damage.

I am going to give it a go. I hate Outlook and have been happy with LiveMail 2011. Does Thunderbird handle multiple e-mails easily ? I assume it would.

J_B

grumpycrab wrote: »

What's it got to do with Outlook?

Maybe they are getting Outlook (1) mixed up with Outlook (2) or maybe perhaps Outlook (3)
I can't understand really why anyone would get confused.

1. Microsoft Office Outlook
2. Outlook.com that used to be hotmail.com and maybe live.com as well?
3. Outlook Express

firefox1956

Seems like another good hard shove from Microsoft towards using Windows 10.
Which at the moment I am NOT going to use.

Big_Graeme

grumpycrab wrote: »

What's it got to do with Outlook? (as per your heading). Just use https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/

Outlook is a service as well as an application, it is the renamed Hotmail.

photodgm

Having had a little search 'Google is your friend' I am a little confused. It is possible that the issue is that Microsoft is changing the servers that hotmail and outlook email addresses are based on, moving to 365 servers. Thus the email client won't look in the right place for the emails - But if this is the case all email clients would have the same issue not just Windows Live Mail.

The implication from the email is that upgrading from WLM 2011 to WLM 2012 is not an option and that an OS upgrade is needed. - That doesn't seem reasonable!!

Has anyone managed to upgrade from WLM 2011 to WLM 2012 on a Windows 7 machine? If so how did you do it?

grumpycrab

firefox1956 wrote: »

Perhaps grumpy by name grumpy by nature........
Try getting out of bed the other side next time.

Definitely grumpy by nature! And my back's killing me this morning... (anybody suggest a good mattress;-)

firefox1956 wrote: »

...These changes will prevent your email from being delivered to the Windows Live Mail 2012 application that you use.

So the question is, will WLM 2012 be broken for ALL email or just Microsoft provided email? (unless you install patch http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49486 )
PS. Thanks for the heads-up

Oblivion

photodgm wrote: »

The implication from the email is that upgrading from WLM 2011 to WLM 2012 is not an option and that an OS upgrade is needed. - That doesn't seem reasonable!!

Has anyone managed to upgrade from WLM 2011 to WLM 2012 on a Windows 7 machine? If so how did you do it?

I read it differently ... that you can still use WLM 2012 so long as you download the Microsoft update KB3093594.

Regarding how to install WLM 2012 I'm a bit concerned that I won't lose all my WLM 2011 emails and contacts. All I've found so far is this old thread in which reference is made by one poster that he simply downloaded Live Essentials 2012, select Windows Live Mail 2012 and it installed over his existing WLM 2011 preserving all his essential data. I imagine you'd probably have to configure your choice of views though.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-program/windows-live-mail-essentials-2012-will-not-allow/95fa0c84-744d-4326-8da7-1cd84750ac35

Oblivion

grumpycrab wrote: »

Definitely grumpy by nature! And my back's killing me this morning... (anybody suggest a good mattress;-)

So the question is, will WLM 2012 be broken for ALL email or just Microsoft provided email? (unless you install patch http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49486 )
PS. Thanks for the heads-up

From the email it seems only Microsoft based accounts ...

"In a few weeks, we will be making some changes to our email services that might impact your @outlook.com, @hotmail, @live or @msn email account."

I certainly hope so as I don't have any of those.

RumRat

molerat wrote: »

I am going to give it a go. I hate Outlook and have been happy with LiveMail 2011. Does Thunderbird handle multiple e-mails easily ? I assume it would.

It is one of the best email clients out there and can handle multiple accounts easily, it's picking up 11 on mine..
The addon customisation is endless and I would recommend it over Live mail anyway. As I said before it's easy to just give it a go. If you don't like it, just uninstall.....