Windows Live Mail query

Hi,

I've just upgraded computers to one with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - prior to this my computer was Windows XP.

I used Outlook Express before, but obviously this has now gone, so I am contemplating WLM, which is already installed on the system. I was also thinking of trying Outlook, but still not sure.

I have managed to import the old OE messages and address book into WLM, with a bit of a performance, as I could not see the folders initially, but it seemed to sort itself out in the end.

I haven't set up any email accounts, as we have just changed service providers anyway, so I have decided to stick with my Hotmail accounts. And this is my issue.

I have two Hotmail accounts, normally checked online, and a Gmail account (hardly used, but valid and may be used for certain things), and a Yahoo account (used very little). I thought I would set them all up in WLM, but my question, particularly regarding the Hotmail accounts, as I have used them quite a lot over the past few years, is will all the existing emails online immediately download onto my system once the account is set up? Some I might need to download, but I have hundreds that I do not really want or need on my system.

I have not yet used WLM by signing in to my Live ID, and I'm not sure that this is what I want to do, really. Is this necessary, or what are the consequences of not using the Live ID?

Thanks for any pointers you can give me before I make a complete mess of things!

Diane

DH59 said:

Hi,

I've just upgraded computers to one with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - prior to this my computer was Windows XP.

I used Outlook Express before, but obviously this has now gone, so I am contemplating WLM, which is already installed on the system. I was also thinking of trying Outlook, but still not sure.

I have managed to import the old OE messages and address book into WLM, with a bit of a performance, as I could not see the folders initially, but it seemed to sort itself out in the end.

I haven't set up any email accounts, as we have just changed service providers anyway, so I have decided to stick with my Hotmail accounts. And this is my issue.

I have two Hotmail accounts, normally checked online, and a Gmail account (hardly used, but valid and may be used for certain things), and a Yahoo account (used very little). I thought I would set them all up in WLM, but my question, particularly regarding the Hotmail accounts, as I have used them quite a lot over the past few years, is will all the existing emails online immediately download onto my system once the account is set up? Some I might need to download, but I have hundreds that I do not really want or need on my system.

I have not yet used WLM by signing in to my Live ID, and I'm not sure that this is what I want to do, really. Is this necessary, or what are the consequences of not using the Live ID?

Thanks for any pointers you can give me before I make a complete mess of things!

Diane

Go ahead and setup your hotmail and gmail accounts into Windows Live Mail program.
You have to sign in with your Windows Live ID in order that Winodws Live will sync with all your accounts. It is important to do so.
Also while setting up the account, make sure you have " Leave a copy of messages at server " under Advanced tab.

P.S. I have 2 hotmail accounts and one Gmail account plus my default account set up in my Windows Live Mail.

Yahoo!mail is a different issue. Last time I check you need to pay $19.95 subscription fee to upgrade to Yahoo!Plus, without which you cannot set it into Windows Live Mail.

Roderunner said:

t-4-2 said:

Yahoo!mail is a different issue. Last time I check you need to pay $19.95 subscription fee to upgrade to Yahoo!Plus, without which you cannot set it into Windows Live Mail.

It works for me without upgrading.

Unless that tutorial is misinforming....
excerpt :
This tutorial shows you how to setup Yahoo! Mail in Windows Live Mail: you will still be able to check you emails from a web browser, as you did before. Please note that in order to check your Yahoo! emails from an email program, you need to pay the yearly $20 for "Yahoo! Mail Plus" service. Third-party plugins like YPOPS allow you to bypass the paid subscription, but these will not be covered in this tutorial.

Despite of rumors according to which you are no longer required to have Yahoo! Mail Plus to check your account from Windows Live Mail, and you can use any regular (free) Yahoo! Mail accounts with Windows Live Mail, the official Yahoo! Mail documentation seems to indicate that you do still need the Yahoo! Mail Plus service.

Source of the info :
Setup Yahoo! Mail in Windows Live Mail

Using YPOPS has the " possible " danger of account being terminated by Yahoo.

Nearly there!

I have managed to set up the Gmail account as a test, and the emails (29) on the server were downloaded. However, I also noticed three unread emails under the Quick Views section. They could not have been Gmail emails, as that email address is only used for messages from Google services, and there are not many of those as I haven't made a lot of use of them. After I had viewed the three messages they disappeared from sight and I can't see any trace of them anywhere.

I suspect they may have been emails from one of my Hotmail accounts (even though I have not yet set that account up in WLM), which was associated to the Gmail account, mainly for logging in to a Blogger blog which is no longer used. I have now disassociated the two accounts, but the question is where have these emails gone?

I have checked all the Deleted folders, and all the folders on the Hotmail account itself, and they are completely gone! I did nothing with these emails other than read them.

I also managed to acquire 130 feed messages. I did some research on this, and have now managed to get rid of them and unsubscribed from these feeds. Not that I subscribed in the first place! I haven't used IE for years, and I certainly haven't made any use of feed subscriptions for anything. Microsoft being 'helpful' again!!

t-4-2 said:

You have to sign in with your Windows Live ID in order that Winodws Live will sync with all your accounts. It is important to do so.

Also while setting up the account, make sure you have " Leave a copy of messages at server " under Advanced tab.

I found the following info HERE regarding signing in with Live ID, so it looks as if I only need to do that if I want to use the listed features, which I am doubtful I will.

And on the Gmail account properties, I can't see any option to leave a copy on the server, but I presume that will happen by default if set as IMAP?

Thanks Roderunner.

There are some differences: In Gmail I have IMAP Enabled and POP Disabled. And in WLM settings for the Gmail account, I do not have the Delivery option at the bottom of the window. My incoming mail is set to IMAP and port 993.