Greetings all,
I am using Windows Live Mail with Win 7 and have a question. Over the last couple of days, I have been inundated with thousands of emails, mostly return to sender, failed delivery, etc.. I understand that someone in Estonia picked my email address to inflict this on me and my mail provider, resulting in my mail provider getting put on several blacklists. But aside from all that, I have a question about blocked domains. Most of the time, to block a domain, I will right click on the email in question, go to junk email, and click on add senders domain to block sender list. In my haste to block as many senders that I can, I might have blocked some domains that I maybe I shouldn't have.. yahoo..sbc...rr..Hotmail,gmail. , etc. How can I reverse this block, and is there a list of blocked domains somewhere in my computer that I could possibly edit? I guess I could monitor my emails very closely, and if/when I get an email from the domain that I blocked, I could just click the other option, add senders domain to safe sender list. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jim
My operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium. I use Windows Live Mail for my email. My ISP is Time Warner (Rochester, NY). I can send and receive email, but as of a few days ago, after my real email has been managed, Live Mail continues to indicate that it is downloading email. The numbers just keep rolling rapidly and don't stop. Soon the screen is indicating that it has downloaded tens of thousands of emails and is continuing to download more. No actual emails appear in my mail program and a check at my email account at the Time Warner website shows that there are no emails to download. Please HELP!
Thank you,
Tom Plutchak
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I have my hard-drive from my now dead Widows 7 PC (NTFS); On it will be the contacts from the Windows Live mail; We have successfully attached this working hard drive to another working Windows 7 machine and wish to get the contact data (Perhaps emails too) into a clean Windows Mail live profile, on another machine; We do have access to all the files (Including App Data folders) in the old User profile of the drive, but I need to know what files/path to use to transfer the old contact data into the the fresh Live mail profile on the other machine (Also windows 7); please provide me with further information/help on where the data is and how I transfer it over?
It looks like before long I will (under sufferance) have to transfer my emails use to the windows 8.1 email app and I guess the online Outlook.com contacts (People) list; so I assume I have to restore my Contacts data to Windows7 Live Mail first and that I will not be able to import my contacts directly into the (online) outlook/people.live.com web-based list? from the existing hard drive data; I.e. there is no MS utility to transfer the data for me?
Thanks in advance;
Lance.
Hi, I recently reset our laptop to factory settings. Prior to the reset I used Windows Live mail and used the option to export messages and contacts, which I did to an external drive. The emails have all been saved as .eml within a known folder which I have access to.
After reinstalling Windows Live Mail, I had no problem importing our contacts, but for some reason I am having difficulty importing the emails?
Steps I have followed:
Top left dropdown, click Import Messages.
Choose option 'Windows Live Mail'
Next
Browse for the folder on my external drive
Choose known folder and press OK
Next
The following window opens:
No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running that has required the files open.
Please select another folder or close applications that may have files open.
I can't think what other application could be using the files...if there is one. The files are definitely in the destination folder I have directed it to.
Is there a fix for this, am I missing something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Craig
I can't delete or open one particular email all that happens is the message appears saying "unknown error occurred". I have tried repairing it to no avail. Anyone got any ideas. It will not be moved either. Thanks Steve
Original title: Windows live Email
Moving from my Mum away from a Windows XP? desktop, I've just set up Windows Live Mail on their Windows 7 Laptop.
On Windows XP she was using Outlook Express with 2 ISP provided email addresses. (One for her and one for my Dad)
Her familiarity with Outlook Express was the one thing holding her back from not using their laptop.
With a friend she organises a Garden society and has to send regular emails to all of the members telling them what visits they're planning.
On Windows XP from Outlook Express she'd organised all of the members addresses into 5 groups with about 30 addresses in each then for privacy she'd individually send each group the mail with the group in the BCC.
She's been doing this for 4 or 5 years.
I set up a new Outlook.com mail account for her and used the Mail Migration add-on to import the emails and contacts from Outlook Express on her XP desktop into her outlook.com account.
This seemed to work fine, all of the contacts? and groups were imported into her outlook.com account.
I then installed Live Mail on their Windows 7 laptop and added her outlook.com account.
This seemed to work fine, all of the contacts and groups were imported into Live Mail.
Sending mails to individual addresses or lists of addresses seems to work fine.
The problem happens when she tries to CC or BCC her groups of contacts in the Garden Society mails.
The mails seem to be sent and there are no errors shown but no one receives anything.
I've read in other threads that there are temporary CC limits imposed on Live Mail and Outlook.com to prevent spamming. (Possibly as low as 10) ... And sending to a smaller group works OK.
There's no information about when these temporary limits are lifted or how she can prove she's not a spammer.
I understand the need to prevent Spam but this all seems somewhat overkill.
She needs to send to the groups a couple of times a month, 5 mails (one to each group) with about 30 members BCC'd in each group.
She obviously doesn't want to go through the hassle of splitting her 5 groups into 15 (with 10 in each) and sending out 15 mails every time.
A business account is not an option because no money is involved. It's just a load of OAPs who get together a few times a month and visit pretty Gardens.
Is there someway she can do this through Live Mail?
Could you please help me open these files I have found on my hard drive?
First make sure that you can't see these messages in Windows Live Mail. When a fault occurs, the program will try to recover from it. Any messages that it's lost status data for will be recovered and placed into a folder called Recovered items under Storage folders. When viewing your message list in Windows Live mail, press Ctrl-Y and look for the Recovered items folder. It may have several sub-folders, possibly several layers deep. Can you see a Sent items folder in there?
I found teh recovered items folders but when I looked in teh Sent folder all the addressees were my email address not the address the email was sent to. Ican see these addresses by opening each email. Is there anyway to recover the sent emails with the proper addresees??
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