Windows Live Essentials 2011 Update

Version 15.4.3835.0513 was released yesterday (probably not in all markets yet).
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_l...ials-2011.aspx

The experience of WLMail is, so far, disappointing to say the least. Simple bugs dating from last September have not been fixed
(although sort by /To/ in a Sent items folder now works), and new ones/reduced functionality have been introduced. 'Send to > Mail
recipient' for an image file still requires the user to be signed in, and (after a quick look) converting a photo email to a
standard one with attachment using the paperclip no longer works.

I couldn't start a new newsgroup post nor a reply to an old one in plain text despite having that option selected at Options > Send.

More testing and, I suspect, more disappointment awaits.
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Noel

"Ildhund" wrote in message news:iv4fq9$1cv$...

Version 15.4.3835.0513 was released yesterday (probably not in all markets
yet).
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_l...ials-2011.aspx

The experience of WLMail is, so far, disappointing to say the least. Simple
bugs dating from last September have not been fixed
(although sort by /To/ in a Sent items folder now works), and new
ones/reduced functionality have been introduced. 'Send to > Mail
recipient' for an image file still requires the user to be signed in, and
(after a quick look) converting a photo email to a
standard one with attachment using the paperclip no longer works.

I couldn't start a new newsgroup post nor a reply to an old one in plain
text despite having that option selected at Options > Send.

More testing and, I suspect, more disappointment awaits.
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Noel, I too installed the update and it doesn't do anything to help the
newsreader part which is what I need.
In your opinions what is the best news reader I can use for free? It needs
to be fairly plain and easy to use, I tried Forte but its too complicated
and is no longer free.

Thanks for any answers to help a 77 year old newsreader junkie.

Regards, Rene

"Rene Lamontagne" <> wrote in message
news:QGkRp.56588$...
>
> Noel, I too installed the update and it doesn't do anything to help
> the newsreader part which is what I need.
> In your opinions what is the best news reader I can use for free? It
> needs to be fairly plain and easy to use, I tried Forte but its too
> complicated and is no longer free.
>
> Thanks for any answers to help a 77 year old newsreader junkie.
>
> Regards, Rene
>


Thunderbird does mail and news. I hacked in Vista's Windows Mail and use
that for news on my Win7 machine. Google Gravity. They keep making that a
better newsreader.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA

On 07-Jul-2011 10:28, Ildhund wrote:
> Version 15.4.3835.0513 was released yesterday (probably not in all
> markets yet).
> http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_l...ials-2011.aspx
>
>
> The experience of WLMail is, so far, disappointing to say the least.
> Simple bugs dating from last September have not been fixed (although
> sort by /To/ in a Sent items folder now works), and new ones/reduced
> functionality have been introduced. 'Send to > Mail recipient' for an
> image file still requires the user to be signed in, and (after a quick
> look) converting a photo email to a standard one with attachment using
> the paperclip no longer works.
>
> I couldn't start a new newsgroup post nor a reply to an old one in plain
> text despite having that option selected at Options > Send.
>
> More testing and, I suspect, more disappointment awaits.

WLM is useless for newsgroup. Period.

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Leala.

"Leala" <> wrote in message
news:iv53vb$83a$...
> On 07-Jul-2011 10:28, Ildhund wrote:
>> Version 15.4.3835.0513 was released yesterday (probably not in all
>> markets yet).
>> http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_l...ials-2011.aspx
>>
>>
>> The experience of WLMail is, so far, disappointing to say the least.
>> Simple bugs dating from last September have not been fixed (although
>> sort by /To/ in a Sent items folder now works), and new ones/reduced
>> functionality have been introduced. 'Send to > Mail recipient' for an
>> image file still requires the user to be signed in, and (after a quick
>> look) converting a photo email to a standard one with attachment using
>> the paperclip no longer works.
>>
>> I couldn't start a new newsgroup post nor a reply to an old one in plain
>> text despite having that option selected at Options > Send.
>>
>> More testing and, I suspect, more disappointment awaits.
>
> WLM is useless for newsgroup. Period.

2009 works just fine.

On 07-Jul-2011 16:16, Ruby wrote:
> "Leala" <> wrote in message
> news:iv53vb$83a$...
>> On 07-Jul-2011 10:28, Ildhund wrote:
>>> Version 15.4.3835.0513 was released yesterday (probably not in all
>>> markets yet).
>>> http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_l...ials-2011.aspx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The experience of WLMail is, so far, disappointing to say the least.
>>> Simple bugs dating from last September have not been fixed (although
>>> sort by /To/ in a Sent items folder now works), and new ones/reduced
>>> functionality have been introduced. 'Send to > Mail recipient' for an
>>> image file still requires the user to be signed in, and (after a quick
>>> look) converting a photo email to a standard one with attachment using
>>> the paperclip no longer works.
>>>
>>> I couldn't start a new newsgroup post nor a reply to an old one in plain
>>> text despite having that option selected at Options > Send.
>>>
>>> More testing and, I suspect, more disappointment awaits.
>>
>> WLM is useless for newsgroup. Period.
>
> 2009 works just fine.

So does Tbird and it's up to date. :-)


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Leala.

Is the indent issue still present in this latest update ?

Andrea

Andrea M. wrote...
> Is the indent issue still present in this latest update ?

If you mean that quoted material in plain text messages is not indented and not marked with an indent symbol, then yes. No change.
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Noel

"Leala" wrote in message news:iv53vb$83a$...

WLM is useless for newsgroup. Period.
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Not for me it isn't.

It has its quirks/bugs/etc but so does everything else -- and I hate having
to use multiple programs (each with *its own* ways of doing things) when I
can get all the functions in one, even if it does mean I have to remember a
few oddities here & there that may be different from the oddities I've been
used to in previous versions of a multipurpose program.
bj

"bj" <> wrote in
news: :

> "Leala" wrote in message news:iv53vb$83a$...
>
> WLM is useless for newsgroup. Period.
> ===============================
>
> Not for me it isn't.
>
> It has its quirks/bugs/etc but so does everything else -- and I hate
> having to use multiple programs (each with *its own* ways of doing
> things) when I can get all the functions in one, even if it does mean
> I have to remember a few oddities here & there that may be different
> from the oddities I've been used to in previous versions of a
> multipurpose program. bj
>
>

same here. as an email client it works weel. usenet not so much.