Windows Mail

I have used these wonderful tutorials for years now for 4 years, ever since I first installed Windows 7 and successfully gotten Windows Mail up and running on 5 windows 7 computers and even one Win 8 (I ended up removing Windows 8 as I can't stand it) . I cannot thank you guys enough.

However on my latest Thinkpad I am getting one strange quirk. Everything seems to work correctly except that when I hit send/receive it will only receive and not send. It will say to read the error message below but there is no message. But then when I exit Windows Mail it will tell me there are messages on the Outbox and ask if I would like to send them. I choose yes and they get sent as the program closes.

Does anyone know how to tweak this so it will work properly?

Thanks

Can you bring up the full send/recv dialog when attempting the transfer?

It's been so long since I went with WLMail, that I can't recall WinMail. Are there connect/authorizing msgs on the lower right? Click that and see if the full dialog pops up.

There are a number of other members who report that WinMail crashes on certain Email msgs - not all, just certain ones, from certains sendeers. The inforamtion from those issues seemed to point to MSHTML, but endeavor tested in his "lab" and did not experience the issue, so.... it's something else that caused MSHTML to fail.

Re-instating Winmail was always iffy proposition. Now as newer core technologies are implemented it's probably a good time to re-evaluate using WinMail. Thre's just no way to incorporate things such as HTML5 without a developer patchng WinMail - and we know that's not going to happen.

A workaround is to view the msg in text - but that's a global setting... all msgs are viewed as text. It might be interesting to see what's in the msg(s).

Bill

kewl1 said:

While I was not totally surprised that I was having these problems with the new install on the new laptop I was very surprised that the disappearing/shutdown mail problem had now appeared on the old laptop which was stable for years. I removed the last 3 Windows updates that had just been installed within the previous couple of days and now everything is back to normal. These updates have numbers ending with 230, 602 and 341. At first glance I actually did not see these in the new computer and I have to run to the airport but will look again as soon as I have time

When you get the time, please provide the full KB # - they'll probably be offered again unless you hid them. If they're important or critical to your system, then you have to weigh WinMail against the entire system.

This is great information that might lead to a more permanent solution.... or put another nail in the WinMail coffin. I don't want to cripple Win7 for the sake of a mail client.

Thanks,

Bill
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@ RKelly5327 & kewl1, could you please let us know if you are you running a 32bit or 64bit version of windows please? It would be nice to know if this issue just affects one or both.

Even though there is no resolve yet, just a fwiw this similar issue was also discussed at this other thread too.

We should keep the topic in one place Here though if we can.

Also RKelly5327 (and kewl1) if you don't mind sending me one of the emails that crash you, I would appreciate it, we talk about how to do that on that other thread in post 17 and then post 23.
Also RKelly5327 type out the complete KB numbers if you have isolated any that causes you problems.
Thank you for your posts.