Re: How to download 'unwanted' messages

[Forwarded to Vista Mail newsgroup via crosspost]

> ...I used to have
> several identities and Outlook Express dealt with ALL of those.

I think you mean that you used to have several email accounts which could be
accessed in Outlook Express (OE) but which you cannot access in Windows
Mail. (An identity means something different in OE; see
http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm.)

Assuming I'm correct and the accounts you can no longer access are
MSN/Hotmail accounts, you now have 2 options to access them using a Mail
Client (e.g., Windows Mail):

1. If you subscribe to Windows Live Hotmail Plus [1] ($19.95/year per
account), you can access the MSN/Hotmail accounts via POP3 [2] in Windows
Mail or MS Outlook; or

2. Install Windows Live Mail [3] and use it as your default Mail Client
(i.e., replacing Windows Mail; yes, the names are confusing) in which you
can access your MSN/Hotmail and POP3 accounts.

> having been forced to buy Vista with Windows mail

Computers are still being sold with WinXP preinstalled.

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[1] http://get.live.com/en-us/mailplus/features
[2] http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!171.entry
[3] http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
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GSD4ME wrote:
> having been forced to buy Vista with Windows mail, I am no longer able to
> download all the messages that are sent to my email accounts. I used to
> have
> several identities and Outlook Express dealt with ALL of those. Now I am
> forced to have two accounts (myself+wife) and I can find no way of
> downloading ALL messages from the mail server that are sent to our 'old'
> identities. Therefoer, a dal of messages are building up on our mail
> server
> and I have to log on toour web mail account to see what is there.
> Q: How do I set about downloading all non-account specific emails from the
> web server. Note that they are NOT junk.
> Not impressed by Vista I'm afraid to say