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Windows Live Mail is a freeware email client published by Microsoft. First released in 2007, the last release is version "2012" which was released in late 2014. It is no longer supported by Microsoft and has been replaced by the Mail app available in the Microsoft App Store.

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Where can I get POP/IMAP settings for Windows Live Domain emails

I have setup email for my custom domain using Windows Live Domains. I then upgraded from the Hotmail interface to the new Outlook.com interface. I cannot seem to find the POP/IMAP settings to connect to in the Settings Sections of the new…
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How to select spelling language in Windows Live Mail?

I have Windows installed in English but I write most of my emails in Portuguese, when I'm writing most of the words are not English obviously so they get underlined in red, how can I choose the Language I'm writing in?
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Windows Live Mail displays incorrectly in a Remote Desktop session?

I'm having a problem with Windows Live Mail not displaying properly when I use Remote Desktop to connect to my home PC. The problem only happens if someone is also logged into the machine locally. Parts of the Windows Live Messenger window will…
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Many iexplorer instances open when clicking on a mailto link

Whenever I click on a mailto link, my computer gets whacko and starts a recurrent series of calls that open more and more instances of iexplorer. I need to manually enter the task manager and kill the process tree. Then the new iexplorer instances…
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How to restore Windows Live Mail Contacts?

I recently rebuilt my dad's computer, from Windows Vista to Windows 7. I have everything back now, except for the contacts in Windows Live Mail. How do I restore these from backup? I had his whole user directory C:\Users\\ being backed up to a…
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How to embed image into Windows Live Mail (Win 7) email signature?

I have tried doing the steps here: http://www.timeatlas.com/email/general/create_image_signatures_in_windows_mail_or_live_mail However I don't like having to uncheck the "Block images" box in the Security tab in Safety Options, because I believe…
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How to change a POP account to IMAP in Outlook or Windows Live Mail?

I have some e-mails accounts sets to POP and now we have the IMAP service, so we would like to change to IMAP because of the benefits that it comes with it. But I'm trying to do that in Outlook (2007) and Windows Live Mail, but it seems I can't…
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Internet Explorer 9 send page by email grayed out

Internet Explorer 9 in Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit has the items Send Page by email and Send link by email grayed out. The default email client is Windows Live Mail 2011. I have used the "Set Default" dialogs to do that. Everything else…
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Digitally sign my email (in WLM) with my GnuPG key?

If I understand PGP correctly, I can digitally sign my email with my private key, which will prove they are from me, right? I created my public and private key on my server, but I can't work out how to set up digital signing with Windows Live Mail.…
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How to disable “smart quotes” in Windows Live Mail?

Windows Live Mail by default changes straight quotation marks (" and ') to typographic quotation marks, aka "smart quotes" (“, ”, ‘ and ’). This often results in the recipient of the email seeing blank rectangles or other symbols instead of the…
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Syncing the Outlook Web App calendar with the one in Windows Live Mail

I have already entered all my classes for the year into the Windows Live Mail calendar, but my college uses Outlook web app. I want to be able to schedule meetings with the Outlook web app, but I don't want to have to manually transfer all my…
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How to import Windows Live Mail mails into ThunderBird?

I have a Windows machine and always use Windows Live Mail, but after a time I descovery that Windows Live Mail do not support filters in IMAP account. So then I discover that Thunderbird that support this function so I would like to import these…
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How can I use google calendar with Windows Live Mail?

I'm currently trying to integrate my google calendar into Windows Live Mail. What I have so far: I went online to the hotmail calendar and subscribed there per iCal to the google calendar. It gets added and displayed properly in Windows Live Mail,…
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Mail notifier for Windows Live Mail

I use the Windows Live Mail app (part of Windows Live Essentials) as my default mail app. Unfortunately it doesn't notify me when I get a new mail. Are there any apps that can do this? The important thing is that it should use as little Internet as…
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Prevent Windows Live Mail to download all messages from IMAP

I'm trying the Window Live Mail client. Simple and beautiful. However I'm used to an IMAP client that only downloads headers. Windows Live Mail automatically creates a list of tasks to download all messages from all directories when closing the…
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