Not sure if this is the place to post this but I have been struggling to use Windows 10 Mail.
No adequate means of group deleting, problems running my Hotmail alongside my Orange.fr , stuff staying stuck in the Outbox , 'conversation' view etc. When you search solutions it is obvious that Microsoft are aware of the problem but seem to be doing little to fix it.
Finally I bit the bullet and installed 'Thunderbird', a Mozilla derivative, I already use Firefox, but it's not essential.
It was very easy to migrate to, no entering SMTP/Port numbers/usernames/passwords etc, it does it all for you. It handles attachments without problems.
It works just like the old 'Outlook', with searches and filters and runs my Hotmail right alongside my main email.
If you too are wondering which way to go, I hope this will help.
Doug
Well done! I've been using Thunderbird for longer than I can remember.
I use windows live mail that is part of the Windows Live Essentials package.
For windows 10 you need to make sure you have .Net Framework 3.0 or later installed. But it does work.
You can import all your old e-mails, contacts etc. from Outlook Express and have as many e-mail addresses as you like set up etc.
Brian Meldon
Quote from: B.Meldon on February 29, 2016, 10:38
I use windows live mail that is part of the Windows Live Essentials package.
For windows 10 you need to make sure you have .Net Framework 3.0 or later installed. But it does work.
You can import all your old e-mails, contacts etc. from Outlook Express and have as many e-mail addresses as you like set up etc.
Brian Meldon
Thanks for your reply, Brian, I did have Net Framework 3.0 or later installed and I too went to 'Live Mail' rather than suffer 'Win 10 Mail' but omitted that for brevity. It was in Live Mail especially that I suffered the 'Stuck in Outbox' problems. I'm not a Microsoft/Windows knocker per se but got fed up with items re-appearing in my in box etc.
Twice it reloaded a whole 3 months of emails to my in-box, despite having the 'Delete from Server when I empty Deleted mail box' ticked. With no bulk delete or 'Empty this folder' facility in Win Mail it was a long and annoying process to recover. Only later did I discover that it is possible to rename and delete an entire folder and contents keeping just those you wanted!
Touch wood the Thunderbird seems to answer nicely at present.
Orange FR is not the easiest system to work from, it seems to resent anything non-Gallic....
Best wishes,
Doug
The 'stuck in outbox' issue got me the first time in Live mail. But all you need to do is to click the work offline button and as if by magic the rouge e-mail appears in the outbox so you can delete, edit or move it. Like everything else it is easy when you know how it is done.
Brian Meldon
Sorry, Brian, thought I had already thanked you for this ages ago...
Doug