Stationery in Windows Live Mail

[SueZee]

Hello everyone,

I recently upgraded to VISTA and discovered I didn't like Windows Mail
because of the way the autofill thing works for the addresses. So, someone
in this group told me to upgrade to Windows Live Mail. I did that and so
far have been very happy with it. Except that, I can't find new stationery
for the program. I love using cloudeight stationery and it was working on
the windows mail, but not on windows live mail. I emailed and asked them
about this and the following is their reply to me. Is this true? Is Windows
Live Mail really Hotmail? I look forward to hearing back from someone about
this. Thank You.
Susan
This is, and I quote, what the support people of Cloudeight wrote to me:

Stationery will not work in web based windows live mail. Its just hotmail
with ability to add pop3 accounts and access from your desktop. NO
stationery is able to be used with it.

 

[Peter]

Hello everyone,

I recently upgraded to VISTA and discovered I didn't like Windows Mail
because of the way the autofill thing works for the addresses. So,
someone in this group told me to upgrade to Windows Live Mail. I did that
and so far have been very happy with it. Except that, I can't find new
stationery for the program. I love using cloudeight stationery and it was
working on the windows mail, but not on windows live mail. I emailed and
asked them about this and the following is their reply to me. Is this
true? Is Windows Live Mail really Hotmail? I look forward to hearing back
from someone about this. Thank You.
Susan
This is, and I quote, what the support people of Cloudeight wrote to me:

Stationery will not work in web based windows live mail. Its just hotmail
with ability to add pop3 accounts and access from your desktop. NO
stationery is able to be used with it.

If you have Windows Live Mail installed in Vista then it isn't what they are
talking about. Mind you I'm no expert but in my Window Live Mail/New
Mail/Stationery there is a choice and one can add more stationery whenever
one likes.
I'm sure an expert will come along soon and be more explicit.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The reply you received from Cloudeight is wrong.
Windows Live Mail is not web-based. They are confusing it
with Windows Live Hotmail.

I don't know much about stationery, but you should ask in the
Windows Live Mail newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[SueZee]

Thank you so much for your help here to each that replied. Cloudeight
support staff are being very stubborn if not rude about insisting this is
just hotmail and web based mail. Anyway, I will check out the newsgroup you
have suggested here, but I have one more problem. I can't find how to get
onto the newsgroups in Windows Live Mail. I'm jumping back to the Windows
Mail to do newsgroups. Help one more time please? How do I see newsgroups
in Windows Live Mail?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

First, make sure Windows Live Mail is your default news reader.
Open the Default Programs applet, which you can access either from
the Start menu or via the Control Panel, then click the first item:
"Set your default programs."
After a few seconds, a list of programs comes up. Click on "Windows
Live Mail (News)". If it doesn't respond with "This program has all its
defaults" then fix it by clicking on the option indicated by the first
green arrow.
Next, click on the following link, which should automatically open
in the Windows Live Mail news reader:

news://msnews.microft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[SueZee]

Thank you so much! I picked this up in windows live mail and am replying.
<happy dance> I seriously would be going nuts without the help I have found
here the past week or so! Thanks Again! Now to see if the other newsgroup
knows anything about stationery! Wish me luck! <big smile>

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Glad to help. I also responded to your post in the WLM newsgroup.

 

[Patty Ann Golman]

Hi
I think that windows live mail is a pop3 email client from hotmail.
The reason being is that I still have xp, but upgraded to xpsp3 and when I went to check my hotmail account there was a link at the bottom saying something to the effect of enjoying the full benefit of hotmail by downloading Windows live.
I did and I love it.
I was using Incredimail as the default, but I got fedup with all the error messages from the newest so now tht is only my backup email client only because my husband bought it for me as a gift 5 years ago for Mothers day.
I will take windows live over all of them.
I hope that this helped.
Brightest Blessings
Patty Ann
http://short.LA/8b5e

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Good to hear that Windows Live Mail is working well for you.

 

[Lisa Tetanich]

Hi Sue Zee,
I have a lot of old nice Outlook Express stationery saved on my computer. They are 'EML files'.
When I started using Windows Live Mail, here is what I have to do:
I find the place where my stationery (EML's) are stored, and I click on one of them. It automatically opens with Windows Live Mail now instead of Outlook Express.
But that is the only way I can get it to work- By clicking on the file first. It doesn't work if you start a new Windows Live Mail first.