Outlook Email

photodgm

Oblivion - Thank you!!! - I'd spent some time tidying up my email messages and contacts (should have done that some time ago). Had downloaded Thunderbird and started the migration of several email accounts - Your solution of an upgrade to 2012 and 'repair' of WLM is much easier and seems to work fine.

RumRat

firefox1956 wrote: »

No, its getting the contacts out of Windows Live Mail into Thunderbird is the big problem.
Even following the guides from Thunderbird help does not really work.
You can export contacts to Thuderbird but when you look at your contacts all the information is in the wrong fields !!
It appears that the only way is to go through all the contacts & corrct the errors...........
P.S.
I exported them as a .vcf file

I think .vcf is used for transferring individual contacts, .csv is better for the whole address book.
Could that be the route of your problem with wrong fields etc?

Oblivion

photodgm wrote: »

Oblivion - Thank you!!! - I'd spent some time tidying up my email messages and contacts (should have done that some time ago). Had downloaded Thunderbird and started the migration of several email accounts - Your solution of an upgrade to 2012 and 'repair' of WLM is much easier and seems to work fine.

Very pleased to have helped. I've just finished updating the wife's laptop and that went without a hitch too. Interestingly the photo viewer which is part of Live Essentials also got updated and I may be imagining it but I'm sure photos load faster and are crisper now, especially when zoomed in with the mouse wheel.

firefox1956

RumRat wrote: »

I think .vcf is used for transferring individual contacts, .csv is better for the whole address book.
Could that be the route of your problem with wrong fields etc?

It might have been.........

molerat

The big problem is that you cannot sync Thunderbird & Lightning with Outlook address book and calendar. As I use a Windows phone that is an essential requirement so it looks like the LiveMail 2012 option is the only way to go.


edit: All done & working fine

wongataa

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Will this affect the Email app, on Android?

No as it is not Windows Live Mail 2011.

Nodding_Donkey

Do people really respond to emails that start 'Dear User'?

No wonder phishing is still so popular.

ETA I just found a copy of this in my gmail spam folder. The 'click here' links to costera.com.tr

Oblivion

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

Do people really respond to emails that start 'Dear User'?

No wonder phishing is still so popular.

ETA I just found a copy of this in my gmail spam folder. The 'click here' links to costera.com.tr

Ooh nasty. .tr = a Turkey for Xmas eh.