Mail application for windows 8. Adding a mailbox

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In almost three years since the writing of the guide on how to revive the Windows Mail email client within the Windows 7 operating system, it turned out that the topic is still in great demand, but people still don’t fall in love with Windows Live Mail. (UPD: so in demand that I had to write a sequel with additions and amendments: Debriefing, or Activating Windows Mail in Windows 7 - three years later.) Also, since then, Windows 8 has come out and even been updated to 8.1. I myself continue to use Seven, not yet seeing any clear reasons for switching to 8. My clients, for whom I restored WinMail during this period, also continue to use 7. However, given that long term OEM computers come with the Eight on board, and the system shows itself on the good side, then sooner or later the question posed in the title of this article would have to be taken care of. In addition, readers began to be interested in this question in the comments to the mentioned article. One of them found a solution on the Internet, which I tested, corrected, supplemented, and now present to the public.

The result was tested on Windows 8 and 8.1, 32 and 64 bit. Sequence of actions for different bits is the same, but the files that will replace the inactive ones in the Eight are different. If you doubt the bit capacity of your system, click: .

If you have a 32-bit operating system, download the following archive:

Owners of a 64-bit OS download another:

1. Unlock the folder containing the WinMail files. To do this:

a) Launch Add_Take_Ownership.reg, thereby activating Take Ownership service. (The archive also contains Remove_Take_Ownership.reg, deactivating it.)

b) Open the folder Program Files in Explorer. To do this, press the key combination Win+R and into the input line Open window that appears Run enter or copy the line %ProgramFiles%, then click OK. We find the folder in it Windows Mail .

As on the Seven, regardless of the bit depth of the OS, we work with the Program Files folder (and not the Program Files (x86) for 64-bit, which also contains a Windows Mail folder).

c) Click right click mouse on folder Windows Mail. In the menu that opens, select Take Ownership.

2. Copy the contents of the folder Windows Mail from the downloaded archive to the mailer folder. After we have received rights to it, the system allows us to replace the existing contents of the folder with new ones.

3. Launch batch file unhide.cmd with administrator rights (right click - Run as Administrator). This will remove the "hidden" and "system" attributes from the WinMail.exe executable.

4. Unlike Seven, Windows 8 and 8.1 lack the necessary Windows functionality Mail library msidcrl30.dll. Each archive contains a version of this library corresponding to its bit depth. Copy the file to a folder System32 system directory. You can also open it via Win+R and the Open input line of the Run dialog, where we type %SystemRoot%\system32 and click OK.

Thus, the long-suffering Windows Mail found new life in the next version of Windows. I wonder when Microsoft will finally decide on it in one direction or another?

As a result of installing some system updates, and especially the pack service, Windows Mail may return to an inoperative state. In this case, simply repeat the procedure. Accounts, letters and settings should not be lost in this case.

UPD: Those who use the Russian interface should also replace the contents of the subfolder ru-RU in a folder Windows Mail- two localization files - the same, but from Windows 7. Bit depth operating system, naturally, does not play a role. Next archive contains these files.

The built-in metro application “Windows 8 Mail” is a universal service for sending and receiving email messages from various mail accounts. Thanks to it, you will not have to check each mailbox on a separate website and you will be able to respond to all emails from a single interface. Your interlocutors will receive a response from the address to which the message was sent.

To start using Windows 8 Mail, you need to create an account. Microsoft entry. As the latter, you can register an email created on any mail service.

After you sign in with your Microsoft account, Windows 8 Mail will automatically download emails from your attached account, but later you can connect other email addresses registered anywhere to it. Let's figure out how this is done.

Setting up “Windows 8 Mail” to work with letters from different accounts

To access “Mail” on home screen Windows 8 has a tile with an “envelope” icon - click on it.

If you're not signed in with a Microsoft account, a window will open asking you to add or register an entry.

Those who already have such an account need to enter its email and password in the appropriate fields and click “Save”. And for those who don’t have it, create it. To do this, click “Sign up for a Microsoft account” and follow the instructions.

After the addition is made, the application will download incoming mail from the specified mailbox.

To set up receiving letters from other accounts, move the cursor to the upper right corner of the display and move it down - a panel will open where you need to click on the “Options” button.

Select “Accounts” from the list of options.

Click “Add Account”.

Select the email service where the account you want to attach to “ Windows Mail 8”, for example – Google.

Enter your email and password, then click “Login”.

If your service is not listed, click “Other Account”.

Select postal protocol(for non-corporate accounts, in most cases this is IMAP). Click “Connect”.

Enter your email address and password and click “Connect” again.

If the addition did not occur automatically, fill in all fields following form and indicate correct settings receiving and sending mail. If you don't know them, go to your email service through their website and check there.

After entering the data, click “Connect” again.

Allow Windows to connect to the service and download your account information and emails. To do this, click the “Accept” button.

For quick access to service and automatic synchronization mail, agree that Windows will save your data (email and password).

Once setup is complete, you can switch between accounts in the lower left corner of the screen.

In the same way, you can connect other mailboxes on different services to “Windows Mail”.

Changing settings and deleting an email account

To access settings mailbox open “Accounts” and click once required account. Here you can:

• change your name account;
• select the email download mode;
• enable or disable mail synchronization;
• set up message notifications;
• enable or disable image loading;
• enable or disable the use of a signature, as well as change the text of the signature.

To delete an account, scroll down this screen and click the “Delete Account” button. The mailbox will only be deleted from Windows applications, it will remain on the postal service.

Mail management

To organize your correspondence, “Windows Mail” contains the same tools that you used on the site postal service. Folders (Inbox, Sent Items, and others), as well as the “Add to Favorites” and “Mark with a Flag” buttons are located in the left sidebar.

Other buttons – “Manage folders”, “Select”, “Move”, “Spam”, “Mark as new”, “Delete”, “Open window” and others are hidden at the bottom. To get to them, you need to click on the bar at the bottom of the screen.

For preview the contents of the letter are allocated to the right half of the window. It also contains buttons for creating, sending, and deleting a letter, as well as attaching an attachment. The appearance of this part of the screen changes depending on whether you are writing or reading a letter.

When sending a message, fields with “To” and “Cc” buttons open here. Clicking on these buttons launches the People application, which synchronizes Windows mail with the address book.

The Windows 8 Mail application may seem primitive to some, but correct settings it works no worse than paid email programs. Its capabilities are enough to satisfy the needs of 90% of users. It is also convenient because it is pre-installed on the computer.

For ordinary people who do not use email for commercial purposes, the capabilities of the web interface of email services are often sufficient. These provide basic functionality for working with mail and in most cases are dressed in user-friendly interface, aimed at beginners. Some email services, such as Yandex.Mail, can even offer a choice of design themes. But when using email in a commercial environment greater efficiency can be achieved through the capabilities of a special type of software – mail clients, programs that are installed into the operating system, receive data from the email server and present it to the user in its own interface. Such email programs, as a rule, are capable of providing multi-account work with email and can offer flexible settings, filtering, sorting and other features in working with large volumes correspondence. Many mailers, in addition to this, also provide organizational functions such as a calendar, scheduler, contact database, etc.

In this article we will look at current offers on the market of email clients for operational Windows systems 7, 8 or 10. Not all of the email clients discussed below are functional tools. The review also includes minimalistic products, such as email applications included in the latest Windows versions. Let's start the review with them.

1. Mail app included in Windows 8.1

The Mail program, which appeared in the staff of Windows 8, then migrated to its upgrade version Windows 8.1, became one of the aspects of Microsoft’s global idea - to offer the user new format an operating system with the old familiar and new, simple tools designed for the average person on board. The built-in Windows 8.1 mailer is a product in the Modern UI (Metro) interface style, and, as befits mail programs of this format, it contains only basic functionality and a minimum of settings. The Mail program, being initially focused not on functionality, but on the convenience of working with e-mail on touch devices With small screens, can do a little: it supports working with several mailboxes, provides receiving, sending mail, moving it inside the mailbox, the ability to configure the display of letters in the order they were received or by type of conversation, and a couple of other little things.

The Windows 8.1 email client has not grown into anything more since the introduction of version 8 of the system. The reason for this is the short time of relevance of Windows 8/8.1 itself. The evolution of the email client has already taken place in the Windows 10 version.

2. Mail app included in Windows 10

The Windows 10 email client has been constantly changing since the official release of this version of the system, and users who did not disable updates could periodically find new options in the settings. However, the mail client on board Windows 10 differs little from the Windows 8.1 mailer. Significant differences include the choice of interface colors, background picture and great opportunities when creating emails, in particular, text formatting and working with tables.

3. Microsoft Outlook 2016

Native Windows email applications will never evolve into functional email clients, otherwise they will bury Outlook as part of paid software Microsoft package Office. We will see everything that Microsoft is capable of as the creator of an email client in current version Microsoft Outlook 2016. In addition to the functional mailer, Outlook also includes an RSS client, contacts, notes, calendar, and task scheduler. Among the functional advantages of the mail client module are developed systems for tagging, filtering and sorting correspondence, applying notification rules to new letters and automatically moving them to required folders, layout selection Outlook windows for convenient mail presentation, auto-archiving and other features.

Microsoft Outlook is an ideal product for the marketing industry. The mailer contains not just an extensive toolkit for formatting text when creating emails, it, in fact, has a stripped-down built-in Microsoft version Word. When creating letters, you can work with tables, autotext, shapes and express blocks, use Wordart and other functions text editor from Microsoft. For the text of letters, a spell check is preinstalled, there is a built-in translator, a word count, a function smart search.

4. Windows Live Mail

Another solution from Microsoft is a free client application for working with postal services, included in software package Windows Live. It appeared as a result of separating postal mail into a separate product Windows client Mail on board Windows Vista. Mail Windows Live in terms of functionality, it can be classified as something between Microsoft Outlook and minimalistic email applications in part of Windows 8.1 and 10. While Microsoft Outlook is a product aimed at the corporate user, the Windows Live mailer is a product for the average person. It is created in the Ribbon interface format (with a toolbar divided into horizontally oriented tabs), provides, in addition to the email client, RSS client modules, databases with contacts, and a calendar with the ability to schedule events.

The functionality of the Windows Live email client is a stripped-down version Microsoft capabilities Outlook. When working with mail, you can customize a convenient layout of the client window, apply filters, selections, sorting options, use the presentation of letters by conversation type, create rules for letters automatic deletion, moving to the desired folders, forwarding to individual recipients, etc. The form for creating emails, compared to Microsoft Outlook, has a more meager arsenal, however, the necessary text formatting options are present, and among the insertion functions there is even the ability to create a photo album inside the letter.

5. The Bat!

Let's start our review of third-party email clients with the market leader - The Bat! , the most functional program of all those presented in this article. The Bat! can offer the user a customizable interface, mail sorting, advanced search through the contents of the mailbox, an RSS client, a database with contacts, protection against viruses and spam, setting a password for accessing mail, checking spelling when creating letters and other features. One of key features This email client contains templates, a more advanced analogue of the rules of conduct in Microsoft Outlook. Using The Bat! You can create template letters and set rules for the mailer.

The Bat! – mail program, paid product, there is a monthly trial version to evaluate all the features.

6. Mozilla Thunderbird

Opera Mail consists of three modules - the mail section, the RSS client and the newsgroup client. For the mailer window, you can choose a convenient layout for presenting letters. Directly for working with electronic correspondence, Opera Mail can offer a tagging system, mail sorting, and the use of a contact database. The options for creating letters are minimal - text without formatting and attaching attachment files.

8. eM Client

The last participant in the review is the eM Client email client. Organizationally and functionally, it is similar to Windows Live, but, in addition to the modules of an email client, a calendar planner, a database with contacts, and an RSS client, it also provides a chat function. You can connect accounts of such services to the eM Client chat for exchange text messages like: Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo!, GaduGadu, etc. Among the capabilities of the email client we will find standard set functions such as mail sorting, tagging, a developed search and filtering system inside mailboxes. It is possible to work with rules for automatic deletion, forwarding, moving correspondence to the desired folders, etc. The eM Client interface is customizable: you can choose a design theme, adjust the layout of windows and the position of the sidebar on the right to your preferences.

While all previous participants in the review, except for the paid The Bat!, allow you to connect an unlimited number of mailboxes within free use programs, the free eM Client is limited to only two connected mailboxes.

Have a great day!

This article describes alternative options access your @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, or @msn.com account after the Windows Live Mail 2012 email client stops working with them.

Note: Support for the "Basic" set Windows components 2012" ended on January 10, 2017. It is no longer available for download.

Brief description of the situation

Email accounts with addresses ending in @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, and @msn.com are powered by the Outlook.com platform. Outlook.com is being translated to new platform, which brings innovative ways to work with email and calendar and provides more high performance, safety and reliability.

Windows Live Mail 2012 doesn't connect to Outlook.com.

Windows Live Mail 2012 will no longer sync emails, contacts, and calendar events from these accounts because it does not support modern technologies synchronization used new service Outlook.com.

You will still have access to the messages, contacts, and calendar information that are currently stored in Windows Live 2012 Mail on your computer. However, to access new emails, calendar events, and contacts from your Outlook.com account, you'll need to switch to one of the alternatives described below.

Available alternatives

Here are a few options you have when Windows Live Mail 2012 stops connecting to your Outlook.com account.

Web browser

Outlook 2016 for Windows

Special instructions for users with data stored locally in Windows Live Mail 2012

Note: This section only applies to users who have messages stored locally in storage folders or contacts stored locally in Windows Live Mail 2012.

Windows Live Mail 2012 lets you move email messages from your Outlook.com account and store them offline in local folders. Similarly, you can store contact data locally. If you transferred data from your Outlook.com account using this feature, we recommend returning it to your Outlook.com account before upgrading so it can sync with the email app you'll be using. The following transfer instructions will ensure that your data is available in your Outlook.com account through your web browser and in your new mail application when you connect it to your Outlook.com account.

Transfer data to the Windows Mail app

To migrate on-premises data from Windows Live Mail 2012 to your Outlook.com account, follow the instructions below. These must be completed before account renewal, which begins at the end of June 2016.

Transfer locally stored email messages

Open the Windows Live 2012 Mail app.

Create one or more folders in the list of folders that sync with your Outlook.com account. Her email address may end in @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, or @msn.com. It may also be called accounting Windows recording Live or Microsoft.

In the list of storage folders, open the folder containing the messages you want to move.

Select all messages (CTRL+A) in the local folder and drag or copy and paste them into new folder created in step 2. Do this for everyone local folders storage that you want to add to your Outlook.com account.

Sync your email account to create folders in Outlook.com and send messages.

Log into your email account in a web browser at www.outlook.com and check to see if messages have been sent.

Transfer locally stored contacts

Transfer data to Outlook 2016 for Windows

If you decide to use Outlook application 2016 for Windows, you can transfer data from Windows Live Mail directly to Outlook 2016. Detailed instructions To move messages and contacts to Outlook 2016, see Export email, contacts, and calendar data from Windows Live Mail to Outlook.

Note: After you upgrade your Outlook.com account, you will still have access to your local data in Windows Live Mail 2012.

Questions and answers

Why was this change needed?

What should I do if I have Windows 7 and cannot update my system to a newer version? new version to use the Mail app?

You can continue to use Outlook.com from any web browser at www.outlook.com. Alternatively, you can use the Outlook 2016 app, which runs on Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10. Office 365 subscriptions include classic app Outlook 2016 and others office applications, such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote.

What if I have questions about my Outlook.com account that aren't answered here?

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