I had to get a new computer and it comes with Windows 7. Too late, I find that Outlook Express doesn’t work on it. Live Mail is the recommended replacement. I am having a great deal of trouble making it work properly. Tried the Windows support area and forums to no avail. Perhaps someone here can help.
There are two of us who use this computer. We want to see our mail separately through a desktop client. We want to get the mail from our established email from our internet provider, not a LiveMail ID, hotmail, etc. Each of us should see only our own mail, and should enter a password to get at it. I’ve been able to get Live Mail to retrieve mail from both accounts, but it displays folders for both mail accounts in the same window, and it seems to make no effort to require a password.
Any suggestions or ideas about where to look for good instructions would be welcome. Like I said, I have already searched for days on the Microsoft site.
A logical way to do it would be to set up 2 different accounts on your PC. So when the PC boots up it asks who is logging in, they then enter a password and it loads their desktop and WLM will have only their emails in it, IE will have only their favourites etc.
You could create a gmail account, and then use it to remotely access your other mail (via the Accounts and Imports tab in settings). It’ll do all the same functions, with the added bonus of being accessible anywhere.
I use a third party company to process email and to register my domain name. I use Thunderbird to access my email but I don’t know if Thunderbird allows for more than one recipient. Maybe someone can answer that question for us. I can access my email directly from the host company but it is a little bit more of a hassle. But, included in my inexpensive monthly bill , I am able to have ten mail boxes at no additional charge.
You may get good solutions if you post this problem to a MS newsreader: Microsoft Communities.windows.live.mail.desktop (microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop). Tools>Accounts>News and follow the instructions to add this newsreader. Be advised that MS is discontinuing its newsreaders, but you can also access it by the MS forums.
If you access the newsreader, you will get a response. Some employees of MS answer the questions on the newsreader. The newsreader you want is msnews.microsoft.public Follow the prompts but do not use your real name or real email address, or add “nospam” to the end of your email address.
You don’t access it through the web. It’s through your email: Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail will access it, and so will OE, but I don’t think you can get there through a non-MS server.
Access “Accounts” under “Tools” and then “News” and complete the questions asked. If it asks if it requires a password, the answer is No.
As a long time outlook user, I also suggest you also look at Thunderbird. The Calender add-in (lightening) needs a lot of development still, but for email only client Thurderbird is pretty nice.
In OE or Windows Live Mail, do the following: Tools>Accounts> and add “News”. Type a name (not your real one); type an email address (not your real one). For name of the server, type: msnws.microsoft.com. Do not check the box “My news server requires…” Finish and Close.
MS is ending its newsreader services. I access that now through a “bridge,” but I don’t think you need one. If you do, let us know. You can also use other newsreaders: news.eternal-september.org or freenews.netfront.net
I tried this. The security is pathetic. I finally got it to ask for a password. However, that password is only required to send or receive new mail. Anybody on the computer could open TB and read or delete my mail. No dice.
I finally got something of an answer from one of the Live Mail forums. You can’t do what I want to do in Live Mail.
Why the heck is it so hard to do such a simple thing? I am mystified.
I think you may be missing the login paradigm that most software uses… i.e. that you log in as a user and are that person.
Are both of you logging into the computer on the same userid? I think if you set up 2 different logins which I believe is the way that windows assumes you are using it, you would be able to do what you want with any e-mail client (thunderbird, outlook, etc)
Anybody using the same account on that computer can read and delete your mail. That’s why Windows allows you to create multiple user accounts - to keep each user’s data separate, and control who can read and modify that data.
Yes, but it’s a PITA to have to switch the entire windows login account just for mail. Everything else is open to both. When we could use Outlook Express, one had to enter a password to get to the email. It worked fine. If we have to use separate accounts on the computer, I will have to go to the trouble of making all the other software applications on the desktop available under both accounts. That’s just ridiculous. I am going around in circles with both the people in this thread and on all the Live Mail and Thunderbird forums.
There are lots of desktop applications that require a log in. I use several at work that are controlled not by who logs in to the computer, but on who logs in to the application. It’s a very common thing.