Windows Live Email In Box is Missing

I have been a Windows 7 / Windows Live Mail user for four weeks. Windows
Live Mail has functioned correctly until yesterday. When I tried to log into
Windows Live Mail yesterday, I received a screen indicating that I needed to
set up a Windows Live Email In Box.

Why am I being asked to create another In Box?

What has happened to all my email that I have read and dispositioned over
the last four weeks?

In case the default URL to Windows Live Mail (in IE8) has been hijacked,
what is the correct URL to reach Windows Live Mail?
--
Mike Hurn

Hi, Mike.

Windows Live Mail? Or Windows Live HOTmail? There IS a difference!

WLM automatically creates an Inbox for each Mail Account that you create.
And, to MANY users' surprise, it automatically deletes all the mail in that
Inbox when you Remove that Mail Account! (It warns you first, but the
warning is VERY easy to miss.) How many Mail Accounts have you created in
WLM? Click Tools | Accounts... and see how many are listed under Mail. (If
you don't see the Menu Bar, with Tools on it, just press <Alt> to see it
momentarily or <Alt>+M,M to toggle it on/off.)

I've never used Hotmail, but many regulars here have, so if that's what you
are using, just stay tuned. Someone should be along shortly to help you. I
see that IE8 makes it very hard to get to the screen to make anything other
than Hotmail the default mail handler. :>( Since I didn't go that
direction, I'm not sure of the exact steps, but they start in IE8 with Tools
| Internet Options | Programs | Set programs; this gets you to the Default
Programs screen, from where you can choose Set your default programs, which
takes you to still another screen where you can actually choose the "file
types and protocols that [WLM] can open by default". Check your settings
here to see if you have (intentionally or not) told IE8 to use WL Hotmail
rather than WL Mail.

> what is the correct URL to reach Windows Live Mail?

Hotmail is a SERVICE; WLMail is an application on your computer, so you
don't need a URL - except for YOUR email server. Mine is
mail.grandecom.net, but that won't do you any good unless you also are
paying Grande Communications a monthly fee, like I am. Ask your email
provider for the address you need and put that into WLM at Tools | Accounts
| (your mail account) | Properties | Servers.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

"Mike Hurn" <> wrote in message
news:64E106F4-6ED3-491F-BE31-...
> I have been a Windows 7 / Windows Live Mail user for four weeks. Windows
> Live Mail has functioned correctly until yesterday. When I tried to log
> into
> Windows Live Mail yesterday, I received a screen indicating that I needed
> to
> set up a Windows Live Email In Box.
>
> Why am I being asked to create another In Box?
>
> What has happened to all my email that I have read and dispositioned over
> the last four weeks?
>
> In case the default URL to Windows Live Mail (in IE8) has been hijacked,
> what is the correct URL to reach Windows Live Mail?
> --
> Mike Hurn

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:06:01 -0800, Mike Hurn wrote:

> I have been a Windows 7 / Windows Live Mail user for four weeks. Windows
> Live Mail has functioned correctly until yesterday. When I tried to log into
> Windows Live Mail yesterday, I received a screen indicating that I needed to
> set up a Windows Live Email In Box.
>
> Why am I being asked to create another In Box?
>
> What has happened to all my email that I have read and dispositioned over
> the last four weeks?
>
> In case the default URL to Windows Live Mail (in IE8) has been hijacked,
> what is the correct URL to reach Windows Live Mail?

Did you install Windows Live Mail? There is major difference between
"Windows Live Hotmail", which can be accessed using a browser (such as
MSIE), and "Windows Live Mail", which is a local client installed on the
computer; similar to MS Outlook Express.

I ask because this group is for support for "Windows Live Mail", the desktop
client, and I don't know about the interaction between the user and the
service with a browser. I don't use a browser to access my Hotmail accounts.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

If you have a Windows Live Hotmail type account(Hotmail.com, Live.com, and/or Msn.com)and wish to set that up in Windows Live Mail
then add the account(Tools/Accounts/Add/Email account/<follow directions>

If you created a Windows Live Hotmail type account in WLM, logon at mail.live.com and validate the account to create the web based
mail Inbox, once complete the same account setup in WLM will function. To validate, you may be prompted to enter a string of six
or eight characters.
- Note: If creation of a Windows Live Hotmail type account in WLM attempted to use an existing Live
ID(,live.com, msn.com) then a different account username will be necessary.

Windows Live Hotmail is accessible via IE, Windows Live Mail is not. Windows Live Mail is a email client that is installed locally
on your pc operating system. Windows Live Hotmail is the web interface

The url to access a Windows Live Hotmail account(in IE) is Hotmail.com or Mail.live.com(both resolve to the same location)

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Mike Hurn" <> wrote in message news:64E106F4-6ED3-491F-BE31-...
> I have been a Windows 7 / Windows Live Mail user for four weeks. Windows
> Live Mail has functioned correctly until yesterday. When I tried to log into
> Windows Live Mail yesterday, I received a screen indicating that I needed to
> set up a Windows Live Email In Box.
>
> Why am I being asked to create another In Box?
>
> What has happened to all my email that I have read and dispositioned over
> the last four weeks?
>
> In case the default URL to Windows Live Mail (in IE8) has been hijacked,
> what is the correct URL to reach Windows Live Mail?
> --
> Mike Hurn