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I've setup my Outlook.com email address in Windows 8 Mail (Modern UI) but is unable to send and receive emails when my AVG Internet Security 2012 Business Edition's Firewall is enable.

When I disable the firewall, the emails are coming through and are being send.

I know that I can most probably open the ports for IMAP on the firewall, but instead I would like to permit the application.

Where/how do I find the application path for Windows 8 Mail (Modern UI) to allow all network traffic? (AVG did not show its normal Allow/Disallow notification for 1st time communications)

Any advice would be appreciated.

Riaan
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Its a little tricky - to find, but I think the pathname is something like C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_16.4.4206.722_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\LiveComm.exe - apparently in the past, blocking this blocked a related modern-ui app so this SHOULD be of interest.

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_16.4.4206.722_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\WWAHost.exe is also of interest - since this is the runtime used to run JS/HTML5 apps

Finding this was tricky to say the least - I started up process explorer and openfileview, then I started up mail, then quickly switched over to process explorer again to look for files that looked interesting in openfileview (which showed me Microsoft.WindowsLive.Mail.etl C:\Users\geek\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Microsoft.WindowsLive.Mail.etl) and in process explorer for suspended apps.

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I'm not sure if the wierd looking bits of the path are randomly generated.

Poking through the modern mail folder at C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_16.4.4206.722_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\ModernMail\ indicates this is a wholly HTML5 application, so I guess each of these has a copy of LiveComm to run it.

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