Windows Live Mail
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.
The program is no longer supported and downloadable, together with 
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.
Features
- Spell Checking
- IMAP Support
- S/MIME Support
- Built-in RSS reader
Tags
- windows-live
Windows Live Mail News & Activities
Recent activities
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What is Windows Live Mail?
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.
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.
Windows Live Mail information
Developed by
Microsoft Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
37 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Very disappointed that Microsoft canceled this product. It was one of their best.
Doesn't support PGP
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.
Windows Live Mail should be called "COMA Mail": it is alive, but comatose. Like most of the things Microsoft is putting out they pack in too much in to it, so it is slow and unresponsive. Also if you are over 35 and have vision problems the week pastel colors are a nightmare, and no way to set it to strong bold colors. If you thought Vista Mail was bad this one is about 100 times worse. I still miss good old Outlook Express, simple clean, handles many accounts and easy to use. Microsoft says this is "New Improved Outlook Express" but is not, sorry to say.