I have used Outlook Express mail for years (Never unstooded it.) now along comes winmail. I can't seem to get it to open. I have used the mail link in Ie 8 and also located the folder with winmail.exe and tried to open it, No luck. Everything on this hard drive is beta and I have the dubies honor of testing it. So any help on this problem will be greatly appreciated.. Sierkahn.

Windows mail is not included in Windows 7, you have to downloadWindows Live Mail to use this functionality.Microsoft MVP - Group Policy

I recommended backup your mails from old Outlook Express and install new Windows Live Wave 3 pack. Live Mail is more better and beautiful than old Outlook Express.

Thanks Fellows but I still have no idea what the winmail.exe does. M/S put it there fora reason and I am curious as to what it does. Sierkahn

Microsoft have taken Windows Mail out of Windows 7. The replacement is Windows Live Mail. Winmail.exe may still be there for two reasons: a) because windows 7 is in early beta they simply have forgotten to remove the file; b) MS are not sure how the removal of Windows Mail will go down and have left the winmail.exe file(s) in place in case they need to restore the application. My guess is that they have forgotten to remove the file. However, there are quite a few people complaining about the loss of Windows Mail so, who knows, it may get a reprieve. In my opinion MS seem to be taking out apps that people want and replacing them with app people don't particularly want. No movie maker, but DVD maker remains. Okay you can download Movie Maker live, but what is the logic of removing a movie editing application but keeping in an application that can burn movies to DVD? John Barnett - Windows XP Associate Expert; Windows Desktop Experience. - Web: http://www.winuser.co.uk; Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org; Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org

Thanks John for your reply and the information. Your right, Microsoft doesn't seem to listen to the people using their programs sometimes. I have always used the outlook express mail and sure would like to see it put back in. Ofcourse there are a lot of programs I would like to see included but what the heck, I'm just checking out their beta issue so I don't count. Have a great day... sierkahn

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sierkahn said: Thanks John for your reply and the information. Your right, Microsoft doesn't seem to listen to the people using their programs sometimes. I have always used the outlook express mail and sure would like to see it put back in. Ofcourse there are a lot of programs I would like to see included but what the heck, I'm just checking out their beta issue so I don't count. Have a great day... sierkahnIf you look at beta-testing this way, I suggest that you stop doing it.

Microsoft didn't update Outlook Express when IE7 was released and replaced it in Vista with Windows Mail, which was then replaced by Windows Live Mail, which is far superior to OE or WM. in Windows 7 they don't include a Mail client anymore and instead direct you to Windows Live Mail, which takes a couple of minutes to download and install and provides all the functionality you will need in a mail client.Also, using Windows Live programs means MS can update them more quickly and respond to changing consumerbehavior, rather than waiting until the next version of Windows to update them.

Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop is an e-mail client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista. The Windows Live Mail version numbering starts at 12 because this application is an advancement of Outlook Express/Windows Mail, not an entirely new application. Windows Live Mail is developed by the same team that wrote Windows Mail.Ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_MailCarey Frisch

Thanks to all of you. I will give Live Mail a try. If it is better than outlook express I just may keep it when I go back to Win XP.

Canthe Windows Live Mail work offline? I rather work with my email files from my PC rather than always rely on the cloud for important documents.

_irobot_ said: Canthe Windows Live Mail work offline? I rather work with my email files from my PC rather than always rely on the cloud for important documents.Yes indeed!Carey Frisch

Thanks, I'm trying to decide if I should go with Windows Live, Thunderbird, or Gmail (now that it can be used off-line). In case anyone has tried any of these, any suggestions on the better email application to use with Windows 7?

_irobot_ said: Thanks, I'm trying to decide if I should go with Windows Live, Thunderbird, or Gmail (now that it can be used off-line). In case anyone has tried any of these, any suggestions on the better email application to use with Windows 7?IMHO, Widows Live is the way to go for Windows 7.http://download.live.com/

Thanks, I'll give Windows Live a go.

And what if I don't like Live Mail. I use about 20 mailaccounts and every account has its own folder structure in Live Mail. This is not very nice to handle. Before I had much folders in a special structure and many rules that sorted my different mails into those folders. I want to havethat back in Windows 7. How can I get the normal folder-structure of OE6 or WinMail in Windows 7?

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