Folders In Windows Live Mail

[Old_Geezer]

"First" paragraph below is background only. Need to let off steam. Ruddy tech >:-(

Further issues. I have no idea why my woman uses Windows Live Mail. It presently has umpteen "accounts" from where it has gone wrong in the past and we had to reproduce things again. Loads of archive stuff that is repeated again and again and too much effort to sort. Bad enough when we had to change from POP to IMAP but getting issues with folders now. This was after a large investigation by me which found that the root directory in the IMAP setting was blank, and we have no idea if incoming e-mails have been lost; we did realise outgoing ones weren't being received. I hope that's fixed now.

Anyway, there are duplicate folders I wanted to amalgamate and remove one of.

I try to create a new personal folder at the top level of the now active "account" but every single time it is apparently humorous to shove it in as a subfolder of inbox. Time and time again I've tried but nothing else happens even though I highlighted the account name NOT the inbox.

It occurs to me that the IMAP box that I found blank (See "first" paragraph above) I had to write "inbox" in to get it to work. Is this the issue ? One need incoming e-mails to go to the inbox so surely that ought not be changed, but is that what makes it refuse to create the personal folder where needed, at the top level ?

This IMAP is doing my blooming head in.

Cheers.

[Guilbert53]

Windows Live Mail was last released / updated in 2012.

Microsoft no longer support it (January 2017) and it is no longer available for download.

Time to move on to another product.

Why not move to a browser based product like Gmail or Outlook.com both of which run in a browsers and let THEM sort out storing the files and sorting out the folders.

You can them log on to your mail on any computer anywhere in the world.

I used to run an email client on my PC but stopped years ago and now do everything on gmail, as do all my family.

As I said, time to move on.

[aelmpvw]

i've had no problems since i moved my livemail accounts to outlook

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks. I have no experience with any of these alternatives. I'm rather wary whether any of the suggested are true PC clients or whether they use "the cloud", wouldn't use cloud myself so loathe to install for another. From that perspective "browser based" sounds highly suspicious to me.

She could just log into the provider's website if she wanted to run it from a browser, but then one's at the mercy of storage limits and unwanted mass deletions, the desire is to get private stuff onto the PC as soon as possible.

[Buenchico]

Windows Live Mail was meant to be an improvement upon its predecessor for home users, Outlook Express. As with the vast majority of Microsoft's 'improvements', it simply made things worse.

If you want a similar program (in that emails are stored on your PC, either instead of, or as well as, remotely), but one that actually does the job properly, look no further than the mighty Thunderbird. (It's 'out of the same stable' as Firefox):
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks. I may try that tomorrow then.

[Old_Geezer]

Judging from the lack of info on the webpage, they aren't pushing their e-mail client are they. Hope they aren't about to drop it.

Downloading now.

[Old_Geezer]

" You might already know that Thunderbird improvements are no longer paid for by Mozilla. Fortunately there is an active community keeping it running and developing it further. But to survive long term, the project needs funding.

Thunderbird is currently transitioning to an independent organisation."

[Old_Geezer]

Mail server imap.plus.net is not an IMAP4 mail server.
:-(

Blooming IMAP, why doesn't it just work ?

[Old_Geezer]

No panic, seems the recommended port number must have changed at some time in the past :-(