RustyKnight Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 I started WIndows Live Mail today and it just says "Connecting" all the time, never comes up with any new emails and no error messages. I rely on Windows Live Mail for all my email accounts and I can't receive my mail. I thought I'd try one of the alternatives, Thunderbird seems to be the most popular, unfortunately I couldn't find a way to import my accounts from Live Mail so that wasn't any help. Quote [Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Ubuntu MATE, Linux Mint, Chromebook] [several Raspberry Pi running various versions of Raspbian]
Tony D Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 I'd make sure you have the server setting correct. If they are, your email servers may be down temporarily. Can you get to your email using a browser, i.e. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc? Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register here If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else.After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
ExTS Admin Starbuck Posted February 2, 2018 ExTS Admin Posted February 2, 2018 Windows Live mail has been discontinued. It's now 'Outlook'. To get your emails, just login to http://www.hotmail.com enter your username and password. Quote Member of:UNITE
RustyKnight Posted February 6, 2018 Author Posted February 6, 2018 Windows Live mail has been discontinued. It's now 'Outlook'. To get your emails, just login to http://www.hotmail.com enter your username and password. Unfortunately that isn't possible, as my email account requires a POP3 email client. I haven't had a Hotmail address for a long time. I rebooted the computer and the problem is fixed. I rely on Windows Live Mail, it has all my inboxes in one place. Quote [Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Ubuntu MATE, Linux Mint, Chromebook] [several Raspberry Pi running various versions of Raspbian]
Rustys Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 Sorry about the delayed response have been moving When you stated: I thought I'd try one of the alternatives, Thunderbird seems to be the most popular, unfortunately I couldn't find a way to import my accounts from Live Mail so that wasn't any help. Were you not able to find the import function or it did not import correctly? I use Thunderbird on Linux and the Import function is under Tools. Hope that helps and once again sorry about the delayed response. Quote "Confucius could give answer to that. Unfortunately, Confucius not here at moment.”
RustyKnight Posted February 14, 2018 Author Posted February 14, 2018 The import function didn't offer to import from Windows Live Mail, I found a website which said I needed an extension to import Windows Live Mail, but it didn't work either. Live Mail seems OK again now so I'm not bothering, but thanks for replying. Quote [Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Ubuntu MATE, Linux Mint, Chromebook] [several Raspberry Pi running various versions of Raspbian]
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