Windows 7: Windows Mail

Hi Greg and Poppa Bear, thanks for the method to install Windows Mail. It is working fine here. But I am now worse than before, worry about the security.
Is there any problem with security?, somebody is telling me that now I should format my computer!!.
thxs,

jms

Poppa Bear,

I have both the Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail functioning together on all 3 of my Windows 7 machines. My main gripe with the Live Mail is the multiple accounts listing with full compliment of folders for each account and no way to merge them into a single set of folders. I have 4 email accounts and it gets quite cluttered trying to maintain them all individually.

The Quick View Folders "All Junk E-Mail" and "All Drafts" need to have a full compliment of toolbar buttons. "New", "Sync", "Find" and "Not Junk" are the only options available. I find it odd that you can't delete any messages from these two Quick View folders using a tool bar button but you can highlight the message(s), right click and select delete and get rid of them.

I don't know if the Microsoft contact you listed in your post is the same one from a previous post but I did contact him previously to voice my opinion about the Live Mail and what I would like to see in later releases. To my surprise I did get a cordial response within several days. A few tweaks to make Live Mail a little easier to use and I will switch permanently. Until that time it is Windows Mail for me.

What did it say?

Hi Mick, and thanks for the feedback. And yes, I totally agree that having no option to combine the accounts into one is a pain in the butt.

With regard to Quick Views Folders, if you put your mouse pointer on the name "Quick Views" and right click it --> then click: Select Quick View; there are a lot more options you can add.

I also was quite amazed there was no tool bar button to delete messages. However, it seems Microsoft are listening as the current version is the new Wave 4, so lets hope there's a Wave 5 and 6 if needed.

I've been using WinLiveMail for about 2 weeks now, and am pretty much OK with it. After adding more options to Quick View it almost does everything I want, and it has a lot more new features.

Cheers PB

You should not need to format your hard drive. There was a potential security breach in the original msoe.dll file and this has been fixed in the updated msoe.dll which is available in Step 4 of the tutorial.

To be completely safe, it is best to install the KB 978542, rather than untick it and hide it. Once you've installed it, then replace the msoe.dll with the one available in step 4 of the tutorial. Don't forget to reboot your PC after re-installing the msoe.dll to activate it.

That way you're completely covered security wise. Also, by having the KB update installed, Microsoft updater will recognise it's there and not try to download it in future updates. Which means Windows Mail won't get borked by it in the future.

Hope this helps. Cheers PB

Thanks Poppa Bear.

I did all the method, I change the msoe.dll that appears in the Windows Mail folder. I did this without having instaled the kb978542.

Afterwards, windows update installed the KB 978542, so if I have understand you correctly, now, I mean, afterwards of the KB instalation, I have to change again the msoe.dll?? in the same way that the method says??

Thanks again,

jms

Yes that's correct. Don't delete the KB update. Leave it installed.

Just update the msoe.dll file with the one from the download in Step 4 of the tutorial on Page 1 of this thread. Then re-boot to activate it.

Hope this helps. Cheers PB

Sorry for being late to the party jms,lol. Been a very busy afternoon here. somebody is giving you some rather extremist advice. I've read the replies since your post and notice that PB has given you the better advice. Glad to see that you now have it sorted!

Re GregS

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Sorry for being late to the party, lol

Offtopic: On a lighter note! Time out! So lets party!

What does it mean if you have 50 accounts in the left panel of WinLiveMail, but nobody sends you any emails?

A. Nobody likes you?

B. Join a friendship club?

C. Need a new deodorant?

D. Join another forum?

Haa haa!

Forgot to mention in my previous reply you can customize the tool bar for "Quick View" to have the Delete option available in the top task bar.

Show "Menu Bar" by clicking the icon towards the top right of the main window; See item "B" in the pic below. In the drop down menu click "Show Menu Bar"

This pic of WinLiveMail main window is in contracted view. There are more buttons available than can be seen in this pic. They can be viewed in real time by clicking Item "A" as shown in pic.


Now go to: Menu Bar --> View --> Customize tool bar

Then add whatever command buttons you want, including Delete.

Cheers PB