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Windows Live Mail – Image thanks to Wikipedia & Microsoft.

Applies to: Windows Live Mail users
And so, another casualty of progress, Windows Live Mail (WLM) which first came into being in 2012 has an End Of Life date of January 10, 2017.
In January 2017^ (sooner than you think!) WLM will stop getting security updates from Microsoft.
This also gives companies (Including Microsoft who have already stopped) the excuse to stop supporting WLM for their email services.

Our Advice

It is time to start looking for a new email client, or maybe use Webmail, we have a how-to  guide on setting up Thunderbird, a free email client from the makers of Firefox*.

Read more about installing Thunderbird here.

Unfortunately depending on how your emails are setup it can be tricky to move emails from WLM to Thunderbird, which is why I prefer Webmail.

Help, I need help with this

Rather than trying to guess at what will go wrong when people start moving to a new email client (Thunderbird, W10 Mail App, etc…) just pop on here and drop us a question, or explain what you want to do and we will do our best to help get things going for you.

Does this mean I have to stop using WLM?

I am afraid it does, yes. Because it will no longer receive updates from Microsoft it means any security problems found in the software will stay there which bad guys can then use to do nasty stuff on your computer. It’s not really a question of if this will happen but when. Much like Windows XP and Vista, it will be unsafe to use WLM at some point in the very near future. Sorry 🙁

Will it actually stop working? This depends on your email provider, we have had reports of Waitrose, PlusNet and of course Microsoft’s own Outlook.com (Hotmail) service no longer working.

Music Time

Tom Cochrane even wrote a song about email… (I assume)

Life Is An Email

LIFE IS AN EMAIL, I’M GONNA READ IT ALL NIGHT LONGGG

Email’s like a road that you travel on
Mails there’s one day, read and the next day gone
Sometimes you send and sometimes you RCV [Recieve]
Sometimes you turn your back on the box
There’s a world outside every darkened [in]box
Where mail won’t haunt you anymore

LIFE IS AN EMAIL, I’M GONNA READ IT ALL NIGHT LONGGG….
If you’re sending my way I’m wanna read it all night long…

*They have split the companies in two now, but we still recommend Thunderbird if you want to use an Email Client. I still prefer webmail, but I use Gmail which is excellent, I realize some webmail options are not as good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Mailhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2016/jun/02/microsoft-killing-windows-live-mail-what-should-i-do-hotmail-msn-outlook