[dba-Tech] Windows Live Mail

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Sep 23 01:19:29 CDT 2011


Hi John

OK, that explains. Thanks for the info.
And you are right: GMail is not the answer to everyone's need.

/gustav


>>> john at winhaven.net 22-09-2011 19:01 >>>
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account because it was no longer valid and had been replaced by a new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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