Windows essentials live mail 2012 to stop working after june 30 16

wongataa

tonygold wrote: »

like a lot of people, i am confused.
i have a windows 10 laptop. my email provided by Sky is now yahoo based i believe. i access this email through windows live mail 2012. will this also become unusable after the june deadline?
i do not have a hotmail account.

The only issue is with Hotmail accounts - specifically the way Live Mail logs into them. If you don't have one then there is no problem and you will have no issues.

Jivesinger

wongataa wrote: »

The only issue is with Hotmail accounts

... and some other Microsoft-provided email accounts such as outlook.com, live.com, and (I think) msn.com.

Jivesinger

dipsomaniac wrote: »

don't you log in to win10 with a microsoft account?

A 'Microsoft account' is an optional way to log into Windows 10, although Microsoft does rather push you to that route.

But there's no reason why a Microsoft Account has to be an email account with a Microsoft domain like hotmail/outlook.com etc.

You can easily make your gmail account or whatever into a Microsoft Account, and use it to log into Windows 10. If you had one of those, then Live mail would continue to work as before.

Neil_Jones

justaquestion wrote: »

I currently access my Hotmail and msn email addresses through windows live mail 2012 and have received an email from Microsft that it may well stop after 30 june 16, as they are migrating people to a new system with office 365.

The only issue here is that access to your Hotmail/Outlook.com email address won't be possible after the end of June 2016. That's it. Email anywhere else isn't affected and will still work in WLM.

You can get your Hotmail with Outlook 2013, it's all built in. Or log in at the website, that will always be there.

chunter

1. with regard to Microsoft accounts attached to email accounts:
And if anyone needs into your computer (eg repair it), you have you to give them your email password. A wonderfully stupid invention.

2. Thunderbird still as reliable as usual. The odd blip with the odd upgrade and a bit confusing to set up the emails accounts initially (coming from OE), but I'm a big fan.

3. I've always had problems with Windows Live Mail. There's always been a few wee niggly things about it so I've never really warmed to it.
Those niggly things would be backing it up and it's handling of attachments, which have both caused a few problems.

Jivesinger

chunter wrote: »

1. with regard to Microsoft accounts attached to email accounts:
And if anyone needs into your computer (eg repair it), you have you to give them your email password.

If you use a gmail account etc. as your Microsoft account then you don't have to do this, because you have 2 passwords, one which Gmail knows and one which Microsoft knows. This the same as when sites like Facebook use your email address to identify you and have a different password to your ISP's password for that same email address.

Having said that, I agree that Microsoft push that login route too hard.

My suggested approach is to always setup an admin-level local account alongside any Microsoft accounts.

searchlight123

wongataa wrote: »

The only issue is with Hotmail accounts - specifically the way Live Mail logs into them. If you don't have one then there is no problem and you will have no issues.

that's a relief.
many thanks for the info wongataa.

cookie365

ARandomMiser wrote: »

Oops, i have run foul of the board police. One instance of this report is
Computer shopper july 2016 issue 341 page 103 rightmost column about halfway down the page
Section title 'get rid! Software you shoul uninstall now'

Get rid! Of Computer Shopper. It's obviously not the mag it used to be if it's printing twaddle like that.

ARandomMiser

cookie365 wrote: »

Get rid! Of Computer Shopper. It's obviously not the mag it used to be if it's printing twaddle like that.

Just came back to this thread because on the letters page of the latest issue someone questioned Computer Shopper's statement about ditching thunderbird - so they explained in detail their reasons for this.

RumRat

ARandomMiser wrote: »

Just came back to this thread because on the letters page of the latest issue someone questioned Computer Shopper's statement about ditching thunderbird - so they explained in detail their reasons for this.

Are you pimping for 'Computer Shopper'? Do you expect us to go out and purchase a copy so we can read those detailed reasons?;)
Without those details there seems little else to comment on...