Windows Live Mail missing key components

[Terry]

Ok, fellows, I have downloaded and installed the Windows Live Mail, trying
my best to repair the restarting problem. Alas, this also has the same
problem. Either the problem was carried over from the Windows Mail program,
during the upgrade, or I have a serious internal mess that no one seems to
be able to grasp on to.

When opening the WLM program, I try to open an attachment, which causes the
program to restart. When it restarts, I can open the attachment. It seems
this is the same problem, whether or not I have the Norton Internet Security
mail scan option turned on or off. Sometimes it does the same thing when I
try to save an attachment to another directory or file, such as "Pictures".
I believe I have wasted my time upgrading, as there are not only features I
used extensively with Windows Mail, that are not available in this new WLM,
but several of my contacts were either missing the addresses, or weren't
there at all.

Now I am not only disappointed with Microsoft, I am angry, especially since
I can't properly edit an email I wish to forward, and delete all the garbage
that is hidden behind in the scripting through it's Source.

Terry Durfee
Frustrated Texan

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you want to elaborate on apparent missing features in Windows
Live Mail, I may be able to clarify or offer workarounds.
If you are disappointed with Windows Live Mail, you can uninstall
it, and Windows Mail will be back just like before.

Several users who had similar failures with both Windows Mail and
Windows Live Mail had success by switching to a non-MS program:
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird
The drawback is that it will not readily import anything from the MS
email programs.

If you want to pursue a solution for Windows Mail, uninstall your
antivirus. Just disabling Norton is often insufficient, and you must
follow up with the special removal tool, because a Norton uninstall
leaves a lot of problematic debris behind.

 

[Terry]

The only problem I seem to have noticed with the WLM is it is missing
the editing option while forwarding a previous email containing much
debris of garbage in it's source. That was how I cleaned up emails that
contained graphics and text and along the way, during numerous
forwards it gathered up many hidden links, etc., which I deleted quickly
and easily using the Source option. That was how I sent out clean emails
to family and friends.

Now I will have to forward the "dirty" emails to my old computer,
running XP and OLEXP, where I can clean them up before resending
them out. That will be time consuming and quite annoying.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Yes, you're right, WLMail does not have the ability to edit the
HTML source code. The only other workaround is to copy the
contents into Notepad, do your editing there, then paste the
edited contents.

 

[Terry]

That does not work, because notepad only picks up the copied plain text.
The HTML or Rich Text is all missing, so that defeats the purpose. That
could be done by just changing the format to Plain Text in the first place
instead of copy/paste to Notepad. Since upgrading to WLM didn't fix the
initial problem, I shall probably go back to Windows Mail after all.

Thank you Gary, for trying to help a lady in distress.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

In both Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail, you can press
Ctrl+F3 to see the full source code of a message. Copy from there.

 

[cityfly]

I agree that editing source code or even creating new source
code is ESSENTIAL to emailing for countless reasons.

I agree - editing at the source allows one to add a table - and many other
things.

Also it upsets me that this new windows email program - mail - has removed
it. Other than that it looks very good - includes a spellchecker. Early
days - though as I've just began using it today.