I have Windows Live Mail. My sister has Outlook. We email every day, sometimes several times per day. Occasionally, an email sent from one of us never arrived at the other's inbox. Not in trash, not in junk, not in spam, not blocked, as we email daily. 99% of them get through but occasionally they don't and when we try to forward from the sent column, those don't arrive either. We thought it was because of fonts that the sender sent in and receiver didn't have but it is not that; we have retried and the font just gets changed to default font. We both used to have Outlook Express and it used to happen back then, also, so I don't think it matters which kind of mail program you are using. Does anyone know why some emails just never arrive and what happens to them and why?
This is not a huge problem because after we realize it has happened, we just copy from the original sent email into a new email. Sometimes it comes through right away and sometimes it has to be sent several times. We are just really curious as to why this happens; would appreciate if anyone can shed some light on the subject. Thank you.
Also does anyone know how to get an email or even snail mail to Microsoft? I haven't been able to find any way to contact them. I want to tell them how much a lot of us miss stationery that Outlook Express used to have. I don't understand why WLM doesn't have any, as it was supposed to be an improvement on Outlook Express, but in that respect, it fails. The only program I can find with stationery is Incredimail and my provider doesn't recommend it and won't support it. They think it will cause security problems. Also, if you get Incredimail, all your email comes in there, you can't maintain other email accounts like WLM or Outlook or Gmail. I need two because sometimes one account has problems with it. Thanks again if anyone can help.
Here is my problem.
I have almost 25000 emails in my gmail account that i sync with my WLM. So I ended up with this massive email folder on my computer that is over 8gb and slows down any scans (virus, searches etc.)
I just want to keep my WLM current, like the last week.
How can I delete all my old emails from my WLM and still keep them in my gmail? Everytime I delete something it automatically syncs the delete on my gmail. And of course, when i do this I do not want it to be re synced.
Any advice?
Thanks in advanced!
There was an update to Windows Essentials recently (Feb 2014). When installed it deleted Windows Live Mail and left me with no access to email.
This was VERY bad for me as I needed to receive a ferry ticket immediately. I used System Restore to go back to the previous state and everything was OK but it took a long time and was very worrying. Has anyone else had this problem? I don't even know what Windows Essentials is nor whether I need it. I will not take any further updates until I can have some sort of assurance that this will not happen again.
System is:- Windows 8.1;
email is;- Windows Live Mail 2012 version 16.4.3508.0205
Hi,
I recently ran the update for Windows Essentials 2012 and ever since I'm unable to send emails to addresses of the same hosted domain.
Originally I couldn't send emails at all so I checked my email address properties with my hosting company and they have confirmed they are correct, but because I was receiving a timeout socket error I spoke with my ISP who changed the smtp server to their smtp server and unchecked requires server authentication.
This allowed me to send emails outside my hosted domain but I'm still unable to send to an email address of the same domain.
I never had any problems at all until I ran the Windows Essentails 2012 update. I've tried removing and adding the email account several times and uninstalling and reinstalling Windows Live Mail, I've even spoken with Microsoft who sent me here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Julian.
The calendar function is constantly updating in windows live mail. As a result, my email will not send/receive. I have to keep shutting down live mail and restarting it to get my email - it downloads emails once, then goes back to constantly updating calendar - the 'updating calendar' message is constantly flashing in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
I am running windows 7.
I have read all the suggestions on the forums and nothing has worked.
I have phoned microsoft who have just passed me round different departments and finally wanted to charge me £95 to even speak to me.
Really fed up with this.
Any help anyone could offer would be hugely appreciated.
Many thanks
Linda
dear sir,
i need your help, i cant send and receive mail on windows live mail since last week
thanks for your help
elias
With Windows Live Mail 2012 how can i stop blocked e-mails from certain senders from being sent to my junk box.
They always go to my 'inbox' for a few seconds then are automatically directed to my 'junk box'. I would much rather that these e-mails not even come into or near my mail boxes. Thanks everyone for your help.
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