Live mail

[Bruce]

I've just installed Windows 7 64 bit which logs into Windows Live. I put in
my contact from Outlook Express but my email appear via Hotmail instead of
my blueyonder account. Can any one help.


Best Wishes
Bruce

 

[LD55ZRA]

To log in to Windows Live, you always need hotmail account not any third
party email account. That is my understanding.

hth

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Bruce.

Windows Live is a service and a whole suite of programs - most of which I
know little about. Windows Live Mail is just one of those programs. For
the full array, just go to http://download.live.com and download as few or
as many as you like - for free. They will all run in WinXP, Vista and Win7,
but are not an integral part of any of them. (If a new computer arrives
with WLMail pre-installed, then it must have been done by the OEM.) Besides
Windows Live Mail, there are Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Movie
Maker, Windows Live Photo Gallery - and several others. Because of this
variety of offerings, always be sure to specify WHICH Windows Live component
you have in mind when asking about one of them.

Windows Live Mail can handle POP3/SMTP, as well as Hotmail, IMAP, Gmail and
other protocols; POP3 is the only one that I know anything about.

To install a POP3 Mail Account in WLMail, first press <Alt> to see the
familiar Menu Bar (File | Edit | View... - just like in OE). Even better,
click the icon just before the question mark on the Toolbar and choose Show
Menu Bar; the Windows Live Mail Team decided to hide the Menu Bar by default
to give us more screen real estate. (Dumb choice, in my opinion.) Then,
just like in OE, click Tools | Accounts | Mail and Add your Blue Yonder
account, just as you did in OE.

While there are many differences "under the hood", the interface of WLM is
very similar to OE - once you turn on the Menu Bar. For plenty of
peer-to-peer support, just go to:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

(Ignore the word "desktop" in the NG name; that word was dropped from the
name of the program long ago, but it's not easy to change the name of a
Usenet newsgroup.)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

 

[Char Jackson]

OTHER PROGRAMMS THAT SUPPORT EMAL AND
NEWS GROUPS LIKE OUTLOOK EXPRESS AND
WINDOWS MAIL .

THUNDERBIRD SEEMS OK BUT I HAD TROUBLE
GETTING THE NEWSGROUPS TO WORK. ITS OLD
DONT THINK IT WILL BE UPDATED ANYMORE

Thunderbird was last updated to version 3.0.3 on March 1, 2010,
according to the release notes.
<http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0.3/releasenotes/>

 

[Conor]

To log in to Windows Live, you always need hotmail account not any third
party email account. That is my understanding.

No you don't. You just need a Windows Live account which can use any email.

 

[Conor]

I've just installed Windows 7 64 bit which logs into Windows Live. I put
in my contact from Outlook Express but my email appear via Hotmail
instead of my blueyonder account. Can any one help.

In Tools, Accounts you can set the default account.

 

[Trev]

Thunderbird was last updated to version 3.0.3 on March 1, 2010,
according to the release notes.
<http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0.3/releasenotes/>

Yes but He stuck in his ways Just like the shift key

 

[Jim]

Yes but He stuck in his ways Just like the shift key

If you had gone to the bottom of the message , you would have seen why
he used capslock .

 

[LD55ZRA]

That is why I prefer top posting as opposed to bottom posting! One goes
straight to the main point rather than going through all the ramblings of
people!

hth

 

[Roy Smith]

If you had gone to the bottom of the message , you would have seen why
he used capslock .

But still that's no excuse. He could always use a larger font...