RH said:
VanguardLH wrote ...
No, but who cares? How many people are using Skydrive? I never even
heard of it before you just mentioned it. No one I know ever
mentioned it.
That new features aren't important to YOU doesn't obviate that there are
new features in WLM that are *not* available in WM or OE. There was
improvement (change) but it wasn't anything you cared about.
You might be using MS Word or MS Exchange and they have had improvement
with successive versions and you may have upgraded but it is very likely
there is a lot of those product's features that you don't use so you
don't care about them. There are lots of features in those products
that I don't know about or haven't heard about - until I need to use
them. I'm pretty sure a lot of software you installed has features you
don't know about or don't use so you don't care about them. That
doesn't preclude them from improvement over successive versions.
That "WLM is no improvement over WM" was the issue that I addressed, not
whether you know of the improvements, like them, or use them.
That would apply to businesses, not people with PCs at home, for home
use.
Oh, you really would appreciate everyone you know and don't know that
sends you e-mails to attach 20 GB of attachments to them? You don't
care that senders create e-mails to you that consume lots of bandwidth
to download them, consume your disk quota at your e-mail account,
consume local disk space in the message store for whatever e-mail client
you happen to use, and for attachments you may not even want to see?
Remember why you started this discussion?
Why would the average person need all those features? If they were so
popular people wouldn't be trying to get WM to work on W7.
Why do people get MS Word when they often employ less than a third of
all its features? That someone wants to use an old e-mail client has to
do with their familiarity with that program. It's what they understand,
what they've used, and what they want to continue using. There are
still users of the old crappy FreeAgent newsreader or using Grabit for
discussions which is good at yanking binaries but sucks for discussions.
Just because you don't want a feature or don't use it has no bearing on
what other users want. You're claiming your narrow wants are those of
the majority of other users. Neither you nor I have those statistics to
prove what the "typical user" wants out of WLM. That features exist
within a product that you don't want doesn't mean you have to use them
but they are there.
I know that since there are three gmail accounts on there now, and
they work. One keeps getting the password-rejected error and I've
reinstalled the info several times now. I don't think lack of
familiarity is causing old deleted emails from last year to keep
downloading. I hope it stops because there is no way to delete more
than 3 at a time despite what someone wrote here. And they delete
very slowly.
Need to take those troubles to the WLM newsgroup where its users can
address those issues.
microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
I suspect some of the suggestions there would be to delete the account
in WLM (not just edit the old one) and recreate a new account that
specifies the problematic Gmail account, disable your anti-virus
software or anything else that interrogates your e-mail traffic, and ask
you to describe what happens when you attempt to select more than 3
messages at a time in WLM.
So how many e-mails are sitting in your Inbox folder when you log into
your Gmail account using their webmail client? Thousands of them? If
so, also mention that to the WLM newsgroup.
how do I get the email to download CLOSED until I click on them to
open them? Closed like in WM so I can delete them quickly or in a
group? They download already OPEN and on or two take up the whole
pane.
If you download an e-mail, your choice may be (depending on the
abilities of the e-mail client) to obtain only the headers or the entire
message (headers + body). If you "download" the e-mail, I have to
assume you download the entire message. It doesn't matter whether you
"open" it or not. That you downloaded it means you got the whole thing.
It's already there in your e-mail client's message store. The bandwidth
already got consumed to retrieve the entire message. Only if you use a
rule (or option in some e-mail clients) to check for a message's size
BEFORE downloading it (so you only get its headers) is how you limit how
much you download. In that case, all you have are the headers. You'll
still have to download the entire message if you want to see its body.
A downloaded e-mail isn't "opened" until you select it. If you don't
want a default message pre-selected in the Preview pane then don't use
the Preview pane. Close the Preview pane and thereafter double-click on
a message that you want to open (but which has already been downloaded
in its entirety). If you use the rule to block the download of e-mails
that exceed the specified maximum size then all you get are the headers.
It looks like what you want WLM to do is not to "open" (preview) an
e-mail when it is selected. That means *not* using WLM's preview pane
(aka reading pane). The same was also true for WM and OE.
