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| + | == alternatives == | ||
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| + | === eM Client === | ||
| + | *Freeware | ||
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| + | === Mailbird === | ||
| + | *Subscription based Payware | ||
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| + | Mailbird works with your current version of Windows, it works with all your email accounts. Mailbird works with any email account. In fact, you can even import your email account info from other clients so that installation and setup only takes a few clicks of the mouse or screen. Mailbird works with: Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, POP3, IMAP | ||
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| + | Mailbird works with previous versions of Windows including: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and, Windows 10 | ||
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| + | Mailbird, however, has a few options for you to choose from but it is not free. | ||
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| + | * Mailbird Lite: Free for your first email account. | ||
| + | * Mailbird Pro: $18 / year (incl. all future updates) | ||
| + | * Mailbird Pro Lifetime: $68 once (incl. all future updates) | ||
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| + | subscription based. limited trial. | ||
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| + | OPINION/REVIEW: Personally I never recommend subscription based software. You should be able to buy it once and keep using it for as long as you want, and always get critical security updates for the life of the software. Mailbird pay model is lousy therefore I would avoid it. The life time option is just a ripoff. | ||
Revision as of 11:18, 23 January 2019
A defunct email client software by Microsoft.
Windows Live Mail is a discontinued freeware email client from Microsoft. It is the successor to Windows Mail on Windows Vista, which was the successor to Outlook Express on Windows XP. It is designed to run on Windows 7.
The first version of Windows Live Mail was released on 6 November 2007. The Windows Live Mail version numbering starts at 12 because this application is an advancement of Windows Mail, not an entirely new application. Windows Live Mail is developed by the same team that wrote Windows Mail.
Microsoft announced that Outlook.com was discontinuing support for Windows Live Mail during 2016 by dropping support for the DeltaSync protocol. Microsoft has positioned the Mail software as a replacement for it. Although DeltaSync has been discontinued as of 30 June 2016, Microsoft's Windows Live Mail 2011 and 2012 continue to work with Hotmail e-mail accounts by using IMAP (or, less effectively, POP) in place of DeltaSync. Gmail and other service providers still support DeltaSync as of 2018 so users can still use Windows Live Mail with non-Microsoft email accounts.
Windows Essentials 2012, including Windows Live Mail 2012, reached end of support on 10 January 2017, and is no longer available for download from Microsoft.
alternatives
eM Client
- Freeware
Mailbird
- Subscription based Payware
Mailbird works with your current version of Windows, it works with all your email accounts. Mailbird works with any email account. In fact, you can even import your email account info from other clients so that installation and setup only takes a few clicks of the mouse or screen. Mailbird works with: Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, POP3, IMAP
Mailbird works with previous versions of Windows including: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and, Windows 10
Mailbird, however, has a few options for you to choose from but it is not free.
- Mailbird Lite: Free for your first email account.
- Mailbird Pro: $18 / year (incl. all future updates)
- Mailbird Pro Lifetime: $68 once (incl. all future updates)
subscription based. limited trial.
OPINION/REVIEW: Personally I never recommend subscription based software. You should be able to buy it once and keep using it for as long as you want, and always get critical security updates for the life of the software. Mailbird pay model is lousy therefore I would avoid it. The life time option is just a ripoff.
