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Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop) is a freeware email client from... Created by Microsoft

Free
Windows
Discontinued

Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop) is a freeware email client from Microsoft. It is the successor to Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista. The application is available for download via the Windows Essentials suite.

Supports multiple POP3 and IMAP4 mail accounts as well as calendar.

Support for Web-based email accounts including Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail Plus. More Info »

Synchronization with Windows Live Contacts.

Support for RSS feeds. Notable features include the ability to reply directly via email to the author of an item that appears in an RSS feed, and the ability to aggregate multiple feeds into a single folder. The RSS functionality requires Internet Explorer 7 or newer.
Multi-line message lists.
Emoticons can be used in emails and other functions.
In-line spell checking.
Separate inbox folders for different POP accounts.
Support for sending picture files in emails through the Photo email feature, which uploads pictures to a web-based service and sends the URL and thumbnails in the mail. It can also perform basic photo correction and apply different border effects to pictures.

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Apps for Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail is also a platform with 1 apps listed on AlternativeTo. Browse all 1 apps for Windows Live Mail.

Link to official Windows Live Mail site

Official Website

Features

Built-in RSS reader Support for IMAP Add a feature

Category

Office & Productivity

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Windows Live Mail (sometimes referred to as Windows Mail) was added by Stuck in Feb 2009 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2017 There is a history of all activites on Windows Live Mail in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Windows Live Mail or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Windows Live Mail is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The program is no longer supported and downloadable, together with

Small Windows Essentials icon

Windows Essentials . Existing installations may continue to work, anyway some email service providers have moved to newer email protocols for improved security and reliability and they may no longer work with Windows Live Mail.

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Reviews 3

Alternatives to Windows Live Mail for all platforms with any license

Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail, news and instant messaging client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox.
- Thunderbird have not Outlook's express / Live Mail's simplicity. Thunderbird is like evolution Light. Very detail settings. When "some" not work, you cannot write and save draft. Guest • Oct 2016 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Among other things, no provisions to open non-system folders to keep different files. You can open one but it doesn't let you type or delete, or in general work on it. It's passable but very far from being similar to WLMail. :) Guest • Sep 2018
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Microsoft Office Outlook

Part of the Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook is a personal information manager that lets you manage your e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks.
- It is a fussy programme. I can't view all of my different email feeds in one inbox. The 'rules; and 'junk' filter simply do not work. All in all very disappointing Guest • Nov 2016 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees
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SeaMonkey

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eM Client

eM Client is a full featured e-mail client with a modern and easy to use interface. eM Client also offers calendar, tasks, contacts and chat.
- free version only supports 2 accounts shawndunham • Jul 2016
- eM Client is a solid, feature-rich alternative, but note that you are limited to 2 mailboxes on a free account. ndlinn • Jun 2018
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Evolution

Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list...

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Apple Mail

There’s big news attached. The best way to manage email on a Mac gets even better with OS X Yosemite.
- It's a great alternative, if you plan on switching to Mac, but there is currently no Windows support, so it’s not a true alternative. ndlinn • Feb 2018
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Mailbird

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Spark

E-mail app with all the great features: swipes (long/short), snooze, add (multiple) attachments from the cloud, support for various e-mail services and more.

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Calendar integration Cloud sync Configurable Configurable request timeout ... Multiple Account support Export to PDF Sync across Devices Add a feature

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Postbox

Postbox is an email application that helps you organize your work life and get stuff done. It has all the elegance and simplicity of Apple Mail, but with more power...
- postbox is a good alternative to windows live mail because can add multiple accounts, simple interface and support notifications. renikaamalia • Nov 2017
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Claws Mail

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Geary

Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface.

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Multiple Account support Add a feature

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Opera Mail

Opera Mail powerfully organizes, indexes, and sorts your messages. It has spam filtering (both automated and Bayesian), supports POP3 and IMAP, newsgroups as well as...
- Discontinued Opera Mail is no longer updated and supported, but last version, 1.0.1044, released in February 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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Mutt

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Some of its features are: color support, message threading, MIME support (including...

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Open365

The open source cloud with LibreOffice online - LibreOffice online + Seafile + KDE. Improve your productivity and communicate better with your team members. The world is...
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Windows Live Mail Comments

Comment by peterstaack

about Windows Live Mail · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It's the necessary evil for a lot of my corporate clients. Try as I might, I can't convince 'em to stray from Windows Live Mail. It's not that it's a particularly bad product, but it's a fair bit more complicated for me to configure than other newer open source products out there. I've certainly used better mail clients, and I've used way WAY worse mail clients.

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