[dba-Tech] Windows Live Mail

Pegasus Mail?

On 22 Sep 2011 at 13:49, John Bartow wrote:

> Gmail's lack of "folders" freaks a lot of people out for some reason.
> And a lot of my clients want local email.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim
> Lawrence Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:47 PM To: 'Discussion
> of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Live
> Mail
> 
> Or just use gmail... (?)
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John
> Bartow Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:01 AM To: 'Discussion of
> Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Live
> Mail
> 
> This is the local version of Live Mail (Windows 7) - not the Hotmail
> look alike web based version of Live Mail. Once again confusion by MS
> marketing. Live Mail replaced Windows Mail (Vista) which replaced
> Outlook Express (XP and older). 
> 
> If Live Mail (local version) had all of its account's email stored
> online then I should be able to go online, log in and see my emails
> because that account is still there and working. But it isn't. So when
> you download email form the server it caches it in:
> \Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail
> 
> When you delete an account it deletes the related files holding the
> messages. There are ways to recover it but in my case I had deleted
> the account because it was no longer valid and had been replaced by a
> new account. In the older versions of MS's email programs you could
> just add in the new account and everything would work as before. Now
> it creates a whole new set of files for each account. You can then
> change the settings to use different store locations but you have to
> know that ahead of time. If someone uses account wizard they would
> never know this. So essentially what you have to do is first set up
> the new account. Then move all of your saved email messages, etc. to
> the new account folders and then delete the old account.
> 
> Beware - if you are going to use Live Mail make sure you do some
> research on it first.
> 
> Uhg, why didn't I just use Thunderbird?
> 
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