Rich Menga is PCMech's video guy, an author and part-time host of PCMech LIVE.The new Windows Live Mail Client (essentially a rebadged Outlook Express with a new skin and some additional features) is a nice mail client considering it’s free. It has POP3, IMAP, Live.com and Hotmail.com support and is ready-to-run. You can get it at get.live.com. If Thunderbird isn’t your thing or if you’d rather use a client for Hotmail or Live.com mail, Windows Live Mail client is definitely worth a look.
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11/20/2007 6:39 pm
Hey Rich,
I just watched your video on how to set up Imap (Gmail) into Outlook express. One of the things I really like about that is the tags or pseudo folders as you called it. Its very easy for me to move messages from my Hotmail account to those folders and use gmail as a storage place. I have recently installed Windows Live Mail thanks to your video, and set everything exactly as you did. However those folders are not there. The only ones are the default folders from Gmail. Do you know of any way to download these folders or set them into the gmail account in Windows Live Mail?
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11/21/2007 10:41 am
In IMAP you “subscribe” to folders in order to see them. When you set up a new account in Outlook Express or Thunderbird they automatically appear. If they do not for whatever reason, remove the account from OE and try again. By default, all the tags-as-folders show up when placing an IMAP enabled Gmail account into OE for the first time.
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12/11/2007 11:05 am
Hey thanks dude, recently put Vista on my Acer Laptop and forgot how to setup Live Mail.
Cheers,
Billy Potts.
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12/14/2007 7:41 pm
Hey Rich,
Thanks for the Win-Live Video, nice refresher course.
real quickly was wondering if i can forward my company email from my LIVE account to my IPHONE??
thanks a lot
sam
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4/24/2008 9:31 am
I am trying to set up my windos live mail to synce with my work email I dont know anything about computers and I dont know what my pop3 server or the ohther server is can someone help?
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