Comments on: Windows Live Mail Bug List

By: mandi

mandi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:04:10 +0000

hello all

By: DTEG

DTEG — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:13:12 +0000

Found quite a big bug, not sure if it's client or server. If you reply to a message and add Bcc terms, the header on the message gets mangled in transit and recipients can see the Bcc terms either as part of the malformed header or splatted into the message body. Reported to Microsoft but not holding my breath for a fix. Using version 12.0.1606, as downloaded today.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:09:12 +0000

Oh jeez, I can't tell you how (sort-of) relieving it is to know that I am not the only person with this horrific annoyance of copy/paste problem in the Windows Live Mail application. I recently upgraded from Outlook Express which is not supported anymore. Jimbo above hit it dead on. That is precisely the behavior my Windows XP Pro SP3 machine exhibits. The first Ctrl-C copy works. Subsequent ones do not. Dah! What a maddening annoyance! C'mon, Microsyth. Fix this already!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:56:03 +0000

Aiya, Thunderbird is good and everything and on Linux boxes it is my favorite mail client. However, it also has its own problems. The biggest inconvenience is that it doesn't have a prev/next button to navigate from one message to another, and the closest they came up with is prev unread/next unread, which navigates from one unread message to another, and many times I got confused because it looped to an unread message from centuries ago.

Another problem of course, is that it cannot access hotmail. :S

By: Various

Various — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:13 +0000

I have tried to use CTRL+C to do a copy of text in Windows Live Mail (version 2008, Build 12.0.1606) on four different Vista systems (some are Business Edition and some are Premium).

This key combination works in nearly any other application I try on Vista (from Notepad, to Word, to IE, etc.) It does NOT work for me in single application: Windows Live Mail (the client app).

Just to be sure: I am not referring to Windows Mail nor Outlook Express or anything else.

In fact, if I right-click to select "copy" it doesn't even indicate that there is a shortcut keyboard option.

By: Aiya

Aiya — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:38:24 +0000

Mel,

I do not use Live Mail. In fact it's been removed from this computer. Anyway instead I use Thunderbird which is a free, powerful email client build by the same team as Firefox. Allows for great addons, spam detection and multiple accounts, even has addons for grabbing your hotmail, yahoo.

Sure Live Mail did look better, and fitted in with Vista's theme and style. But Thunderbird wins for me.

Addon's I use are: Attachment Extractor, British English Dictionary, Nostalgy, Remove Duplicate Messages, WebMail, which make my life much easier.

Aiya

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:01:05 +0000

Does anyone know how to not make it automatically go to the last message you were looking at? i mean this in 2 ways. 1 being - theres no welcome screen, it just pops right to a message, i dont like that. and 2 - wehn you click on an account, say you were looking at an email from 2 months ago... it will pop back to that one when you click that account again, making you have to scroll al the way down or up (depending on your setup) and click on it to finally see the new email.

outlook express was alot better in both of these areas. why cant vista just also have outlook express? it would make live so much easier!!

By: VG

VG — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:30:37 +0000

^^ We have forwarded the bug to Microsoft Live team and lets hope it'll be fixed in the future release.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:01:31 +0000

Like Jimbo, I too have the copy/paste problem with LiveMail.

Cannot copy/paste anything from LM to Word, Excel, NotePad, etc.

Happens on ALL 3 of my machines, 2 XP-sp3 & Vista.

Any hope that MS will acknowledge something is wrong????

By: somebody

somebody — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:55:57 +0000

i cant even use it
(its showing some error wen i open emails but subject is correct)
i gave an complaint almost a year ago but not still solved