Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 22 16:52:40 CDT 2011
Seeing Windows Live Mail is doing odd things that would leave Thunderbird. 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 11:49 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Live Mail 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 There are ways to recover it but in my case I had deleted the account because it was no longer valid and had been replaced by a new account.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? _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com