Re: setting up windows mail on vista laptop

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Hi, and thanks so much for taking your time to help me. In answer to your
question 1 I will probably not take the laptop anywhere use just around the
house. In answer to your question 2 I downloaded Windows Live Mail. When I
opened Windows Live Mail it automatically down loaded 1 of my hotmail
accounts and my 1 msn account. So I got that much done and I know there's
alot more to do. To quote you "That's no small task there is it :) "

Thanks again and I will be waiting to hear from you
mka


"Charlie Tame" wrote:

That's no small task there is it :)

Okay, question 1 is will you be taking the laptop anywhere with you, if
so then some of those e mail accounts may not work if it's not connected
through the same service provider you use at home.

Question 2 is whether you really want to use the Windows Mail that comes
with Vista or whether you would be better to set this all up with
Windows Live Mail which has more options and is, frankly, better.

http://download.live.com/wlmail is where you can look at that. Better to
get that now than use the ordinary one I think.

If you wanted something that looks like Outlook Express then you could
try Thunderbird which also does newsgroups.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

I assume you are not going to rush out and buy Outlook any time soon so
those two are probably your best choices.

So could you please post back and mention whether you plan to be
traveling with the laptop and whether you are going to use Live mail or
whatever.

As to your choices I have to say that it may not be possible to get this
exactly as you'd like it because not all e-mail providers work the same
way. If you plan to travel a lot then one of the web mail accounts
Hotmail / Gmail might the the one to prioritize as they are accessible
from more or less anywhere.

mkaone wrote:
Hello, I have several email accounts, for example 1-msn, 4-hotmail, 1-gmail,
1-road runner and a couple of aol.

What account do I need to use as my main account so I can start using
windows mail on my vista laptop.

Can someone tell me how to add these accounts?

Also how do I get my emails, attachments, news accounts. different folders
(ex. saved, dont delete) and contacts-address book from my xp desktop which
is using Outlook Express -- to my laptop vista using windows mail? News
accounts are not important if moving them are hard.

Also I would like to get all my email together so I can go thru and delete
and save the emails I need.
That is the main reason I am trying to get all my emails, attachments, etc.
To be in one place on one computer so I don't have alot of copies of the same
and try to go thru on the different computers.
One last question is there a way to save emails to one of my external 500g
hard drives, So that my inbox or other folders do not become really really
full in windows mail on my laptop?
I believe that covers it.

Thanks for all your help in advance. I greatly appreciate it.

mkaone


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