Will installing Windows Live email conflict with using Outlook Express?

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MEL

I'd like to take a look at the new Windows 'Live' email client but don't
want to goof up Outlook Express, which I've used for years.


Will installing Windows Live cause any conflicts with Outlook Express, as
long as I maintain OE as my default email program?

XP Pro with sp2
English

My thanks for your assistance.


MEL
 
MEL said:
I'd like to take a look at the new Windows 'Live' email client but don't
want to goof up Outlook Express, which I've used for years.


Will installing Windows Live cause any conflicts with Outlook Express, as
long as I maintain OE as my default email program?

XP Pro with sp2
English

My thanks for your assistance.


MEL
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No, it won't conflict directly, *but*, if you set it to download from the
same account, and don't set it to leave messages on the server, it will do
as it's told, and any mail on the server will be downloaded to the client
and deleted from the server. That means that OE can't download it, since
it's no longer there.

I have OE and WLM (and Outlook, thunderbird, etc) installed on my desktop,.
and as long as you set them up properly, they don't interfere with each
other.

HTH
-pk
 
I'd like to take a look at the new Windows 'Live' email client but don't
want to goof up Outlook Express, which I've used for years.


Will installing Windows Live cause any conflicts with Outlook Express, as
long as I maintain OE as my default email program?

XP Pro with sp2
English

My thanks for your assistance.
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Windows Live Mail will hide/remove the MSOE shortcuts, and change the file
associations for .eml and .nws files, so that double clicking on those files
will invoke WLM instead of MSOE. Other than that, the two co-exist very
nicely.

See Patrick Keenan's followup for advice on POP3 access. The nature of POP3
access is to delete messages from the POP3 server once downloaded.
 
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