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Windows Live mail freezing on screen

I have windows 7 and use Windows Live mail for my email. I have put it through the repair mode 3 times. Sometimes it will not open. Most time it will not close and I have to go through the motions of shutting down to cle …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 26, 2012

I’m fed up of thousands of spam emails!

Is there a programme I can use that automatically sends an increadibly destructive virus back to spammers when I send their bloody boring and time consuming emails to the Spam Folder?

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 26, 2012

email fraud

Dear Support Team, we receive an email from this email address <removed by moderator> and this guy is threating us in our company ,he sent E-mail to our company general manager address on our private domain. so I need to …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 26, 2012

What gives?

After a new account was set up last night the message appeared: "Windows Live is synchronizing this account. Check back in a few minutes to read your messages". The few minutes extended now to 30 hours and the same messa …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 26, 2012

Does Live Mail 2012 Feature Mail Notifications?

Hello Community, I just installed Windows Live Mail 2012, but when I receive mail now, I do not get notifications in the bottom right of my screen (toasts). Has this been removed from 2012 or is there something wrong wit …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 25, 2012

Unable to send or reply to email.

I get this message every time I try to send a new email or reply to one that I have already received I am using live mail in windows 7 A problem has occurred while trying to open this message. Please try again

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 25, 2012

flahing calender update and 3204 error

The updating calender is flashing and trying to update all the time and I get a 3204 error and it will not check my 3 hotmail accounts. I have tried uninstalling accounts and uninstalling the program then reinstalling an …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 24, 2012

Hotmail and gmail sync.

Hello. Greetings.! My question is about WLM send receive. I have 6 accounts in WLM. 5gmails and one hotmail. (all imap) During send receive process, i want my hotmail emails to be first in receiving emails and then gmial …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 24, 2012

Multiple incoming e-mails

After re-installing IE8, reinstalling Windows Live Mail and most recently allowing security program to check incoming mail, I now have each incoming e-mail arriving multiple times. Never had this problem before. I see ot …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 24, 2012

Multiple incoming e-mails

After re-installing IE8, reinstalling Windows Live Mail and most recently allowing security program to check incoming mail, I now have each incoming e-mail arriving multiple times. Never had this problem before. I see ot …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 24, 2012

Viewing live mail

How can I get windows live mail to open & display a message in the reading pane when I just select the message in the message list?

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 23, 2012

How can I save an ordinary mail into my documents?

I have a number of mails of the same format being sent to me that I want to save as files with slightly different titles each time. There doesn't seem to be any way of saving the whole mail to reproduce on my hard drive

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 23, 2012

Spell checking in another language

I have a Windows XP computer and have installed Windows Live Mail, but I'm unable to spell check in any other language than English. I've looked under the options menu in Windows Mail, and the only languages installed ar …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 23, 2012

Street addresses in Windows live contacts.

Hotmail contacts entries have a place for street addresses. I can't find that in Windows Live Mail. Should I keep looking, or will I have to change to a different address book if I want street mailing addresses?

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 22, 2012

Attachment Blocking – Windows Live Email

Windows Live email is blocking even .doc files. I appreciate the reason for blocking potentially dangerous file extensions -- but why a .doc file? Is it because I'm using Open Office and not MSWord? I'm new to Windows 8 …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 22, 2012