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Nothing but problems again with Windows Live Mail 2012, using the IMAP settings for Hotmail accounts. I know of at least a half dozen people who are having sync errors, cached message errors, server timeouts, and all in all just a bad experience for the last week. Since last Tuesday March 28 - 2017

Windows Live Mail using the IMAP settings as per outlined setup link ... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/wiki/livemail-email/windows-live-mail-and-outlook-mail/6edb5ba6-f9f2-40fd-80a1-fc23cc6fbfe0

Every Send and receive errors pop up. I currently manage 4 different peoples computers, running windows 7, to windows 10 , running windows live mail , all with Hotmail accounts, and all of these people are experiencing the same errors, and of course everyone is annoyed big time.  It also is taking several minutes just to see the contents of an email from selecting the header, I have set the max time limit on everyones computer to 5 minutes for server timeouts, but this did not make a difference. It usually rotates through several of the above errors messages over and over.

Why does Microsoft have to screw stuff up like this every few months. Its ridiculous .... why they just can leave it alone. I know they don't support WLM 2012 anymore , however I have a gmail account using IMAP , and no errors exist what so ever.

I suppose if they do not fix this problem, its time to get away from Microsoft completely. All they do in cause hardship and abandon the only programs and OS's that actually work, and then expect people to subscribe to Office 365 to continue to use the client email program. I have also tried to get all the users that I manage to change over to outlook.com for email , but the way it is setup is also ridiculous. everyone hates its UI, and find it difficult to navigate through contacts , and all the hidden feature buttons. If it was setup like WLM UI , it would be fine.

However I have seen several links of other saying the setup is other ports for SMTP outgoing, like 25 instead of 587 .and also the incoming server addresses of imap-mail.outlook.com , I have also seen reported on other sites as imap.mail.outlook.com, also the same for outgoing , smtp-mail.outlook.com , where I have also seen it reported as smtp.mail.outlook.com....  so it begs the question which one is right if any ? as they all seem to produce the same errors in regards to syncing with Hotmail accounts. I do not have anyone using an outlook.com account to see if it produces the same results.

Please someone help with this issue, there is no reason why a Microsoft email account shouldn't work with IMAP settings, unless Microsoft has changed something , and we need to adjust the settings accordingly, but I see nothing of anyone talking about it on the internet in the last week of searching. Like I had mentioned my Gmail account works flawlessly on WLM 2012 with IMAP settings.

sincerely.

G Sayer