What Is Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail 2012 running on Windows eight
Developer(due south)	Microsoft

Final release	2012 (v16.iv.3528.0331) (November 4, 2014; vii years agone (2014-eleven-04)) [±]

Operating system	Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows eight^[one]
Type	E-mail customer News client Feed reader Electronic agenda
License	Freeware
Website	explore.live.com/windows-live-mail

Windows Alive Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail service Desktop, code-named Elroy ^[2]) was a freeware electronic mail customer from Microsoft. It is the successor to Windows Mail in Windows Vista, which was the successor to Outlook Limited in Windows XP and Windows 98. Windows Live Mail service is designed to run on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, simply is likewise compatible with Windows 8^[i] and Windows 10, even though Microsoft bundles a new email client, named Windows Mail service, with the latter.^[3]

Since effectually 2013, serious problems with Windows Alive Mail 2012 (but non with Windows Live Mail 2011) accept been reported on various blog sites (including Microsoft forums). One problem is that deleted emails go on returning solar day after day.^[4] Another development that caused complaints is the Live Mail Sent folder erroneously containing the name of the Sender rather than the Recipient in the To column, while omitting the sender's business relationship name in the Account column (as the fault merely affects that folder, a workaround is to motility sent items into a new folder, named - for example - "Sent 2019").^[5] Discussions on the forums have provided no clear solutions to these issues.

Windows Alive Mail moved away from the older Microsoft mail programs, such as Outlook Express, which stored all e-mails comprising a folder (such as the Inbox) in a unmarried .dbx file. In club to provide greater flexibility (and to avert the problem where corruption of a single .dbx file could delete multiple emails), Windows Live Mail stores each electronic mail bulletin as a separate .eml file. Only the folder structure is maintained in a single database file, using the ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) database construction, named Postal service.MSMessageStore (which besides holds some metadata for each .eml file on the system, so can exist a huge file). The program also maintains a fill-in re-create of that file, in the Fill-in sub-folder, and so bug are rare. At a compression, the Postal service.MSMessageStore file can be recreated from the information in the .eml files.

History [edit]

Version 12 (Moving ridge ii) [edit]

The first version of Windows Live Mail was released on half dozen November 2007. The Windows Alive Mail version numbering starts at 12 because this awarding is an advocacy of Windows Postal service, not an entirely new awarding. Windows Alive Mail is developed by the aforementioned squad that wrote Windows Mail.

Windows Alive Mail has all of the features of Windows Postal service. It also adds the following new features:

Back up for Web-based email accounts including Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail Plus.
A different user interface which matches the other Windows Live "Wave two" applications.
Synchronization with Windows Live Contacts.
Support for RSS feeds. Notable features include the ability to reply direct via email to the writer of an particular that appears in an RSS feed, and the ability to aggregate multiple feeds into a single folder. The RSS functionality requires Cyberspace Explorer 7 or newer.
Multi-line message lists.
Emoticons can be used in emails and other functions.
In-line spell checking.
Divide inbox folders for unlike POP accounts.
Support for sending picture files in emails through the Photo email characteristic, which uploads pictures to a spider web-based service and sends the URL and thumbnails in the post. Information technology can also perform basic photo correction and apply different border effects to pictures.

Comparison with Windows Mail [edit]

While Windows Live Mail is the successor to Windows Mail (Vista) on Windows Vista, there were several differences in functionality betwixt Windows Live Mail and Windows Mail when it was released in 2007. These include:

Ability to view and edit HTML e-mail by source has been removed in Windows Live Postal service
Ability to set margins has been removed
Scripted Jotter for Windows Live Mail service 2011 is available from Cloudeight Stationery
Locally installed assist documentation is not available for Windows Alive Mail
Back up for using different mailboxes with dissever folders (inbox, junk and and then on) was added in Windows Alive Mail
Support for DeltaSync, a proprietary protocol for access to Windows Live Hotmail e-mail accounts, was added in Windows Live Mail
Back up for WebDAV, a HTTP-based protocol (web-based email accounts), developed for Outlook Express, was added in Windows Live Mail service
Ability to perform a full-text alphabetize-based search in Windows Live Mail if Windows Search is installed

Version 2009 (Wave 3) [edit]

A beta version of Windows Live Mail service was released in September 2008. It features a new user interface which, like the other Windows Live "Wave 3" beta applications released at the same time, has no icons on the toolbar buttons. Information technology besides features a new calendaring function; agenda events automatically synchronize betwixt Windows Live Mail service and the Spider web-based Windows Live Calendar. A "beta refresh" version of Windows Live Post was released on 15 December 2008, and this version was officially released as the final version on 8 Jan 2009. This was the final version to back up Windows XP.^[6]

Version 2009 still contains the same MIME problem with signed mail service^[7] that Outlook Express has.

Version 2011 (Wave 4) [edit]

The offset beta became available on 24 June 2010, sporting ribbons in the user interface and a agenda pane. The second beta came with a new start-upwards screen and other small-scale updates. The last version of Windows Alive Postal service 2011 was released on xxx September 2010, along with the Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite. It requires Windows Vista or newer; Windows XP is no longer supported.^[6]

Version 2012 (Moving ridge v) [edit]

On seven August 2012, Microsoft released a new version of Windows Essentials 2012, which included Windows Live Mail 2012. It requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8,^[1] or Windows 10.^[3] Windows Vista is no longer supported.^[6]

There are no significant differences from Windows Live Mail 2011, salve the discontinuance of support for Vista and DeltaSync. The only technical difference is the replacement in Windows Live Mail 2012 of DeltaSync by Exchange ActiveSync. User forums study meaning problems with the upgrade software, KB3093594, and then it is recommended not to attempt to upgrade from Windows Live Post 2011,^[viii] ^[9] and there are no benefits in doing and then, every bit both versions are identical, unless the user wishes to use Exchange ActiveSync. Just past switching from Deltasync to IMAP, Windows Live Mail 2011 continues to work, without needing either Windows Live Mail 2012 or the upgrade.^[10]

Replacement [edit]

Microsoft appear that Outlook.com was discontinuing support for Windows Live Postal service during 2016^[11] by discontinuing use of the DeltaSync protocol. Microsoft has positioned the Mail app (arranged with Windows x, bachelor in Windows Shop) equally a replacement for information technology. Third party replacements for it, such equally OE Classic, accept as well been introduced.

Although use of DeltaSync has been discontinued on Microsoft's servers since 30 June 2016, Windows Alive Mail 2011 and 2012 continue to work with Hotmail e-mail service accounts by using IMAP (or, less effectively, POP3) instead of DeltaSync.^[12] ^[xiii] Gmail and other service providers still support DeltaSync,^[14] and so users can all the same use Windows Live Postal service 2011 with not-Microsoft electronic mail accounts (but not Windows Live Mail 2012, equally DeltaSync back up was removed from information technology).

Windows Essentials 2012, including Windows Live Mail 2012, reached cease of support on 10 Jan 2017, and is no longer available for download from Microsoft;^[15] but nearly of the software arranged in it or in Windows Essentials 2011, including Windows Live Mail, continues to function^[xvi] and information technology can yet exist downloaded from Archive.org.^[17] ^[18] The 2011 version is besides however available.^[19]

See likewise [edit]

Comparison of email clients
Comparing of feed aggregators
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
Windows Live

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Windows Essentials 2012 arrangement requirements". Microsoft Windows Help. Microsoft. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
^ Udezue, Oji (6 November 2007). "Windows Live Postal service v1 is released!". More than Than Mail blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on nineteen April 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Download Windows Live Mail service For Windows 10". Into Windows. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016.
^ "Live Mail 2012 Tin can't delete emails". Retrieved 29 June 2019.
^ "Windows Live Mail sent folder not showing recipient". Retrieved 29 June 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Windows Essentials download options". microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved iv May 2015.
^ newsgroup example showing a utilise of both OpenPGP/MIME and Due south/MIME
^ The craziness of Windows Live Mail service patch KB3093594
^ Patch KB 3093594 reported as freezing Windows
^ "Replace DeltaSync with IMAP". Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. This reference says to use port 25 for SMTP simply it may exist necessary to use port 587.
^ Soltero, Javier (5 May 2016). "Using Windows Live Postal service 2012 with Outlook.com? Time to update your electronic mail application!". Function Blogs. Microsoft. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
^ "Replace DeltaSync with IMAP". Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. This reference says to use port 25 for SMTP merely you may need to use port 587.
^ "Add your Outlook com account to another mail app".
^ Leonhard, Woody (6 May 2016). "Microsoft to Windows Alive Mail 2012 users: Switch now". InfoWorld. IDG. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
^ "Essentials 2012 Release Notes". Support. Microsoft. ane February 2017.
^ Windows Essentials - Microsoft Support "We're no longer offering the Windows Essentials 2012 suite for download, but if y'all already accept it installed it will continue to work"
^ Windows Essentials 2012 full installer
^ Grab an offline re-create of Microsoft Windows Live Essentials
^ Go to Windows Live Essentials Assistance Center, click on "Installer file links for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008", and cull a linguistic communication.