Email client, electronic calendar and newsreader, developed by Microsoft
Not to be confused with Windows Live Hotmail or Windows Mail.
Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Mail 2012 running on Windows 8
Developer(s)
Microsoft
Final release
2012 (v16.4.3528.0331) (November 4, 2014; 9 years ago (2014-11-04)) [±]
Operating system
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8[1]
Type
Email client
News client
Feed reader
Electronic calendar
License
Freeware
Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop, code-named Elroy[2]) is a discontinued freeware email client from Microsoft. It was the successor to Windows Mail in Windows Vista, which was the successor to Outlook Express in Windows XP and Windows 98. Windows Live Mail is designed to run on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but is also compatible with Windows 8[1] and Windows 10, even though Microsoft bundles a new email client, named Windows Mail, with the latter.[3] In addition to email, Windows Live Mail also features a calendar, an RSS feed reader, and a Usenet newsreader.
Windows Live Mail moved away from the older Microsoft mail programs, such as Outlook Express, which stored all e-mails comprising a folder (such as the Inbox) in a single .dbx file. In order to provide greater flexibility (and to avoid the problem where corruption of a single .dbx file could delete multiple emails), Windows Live Mail stores each email message as a separate .eml file. Only the folder structure is maintained in a single database file, using the ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) database structure, named Mail.MSMessageStore (which also holds some metadata for each .eml file on the system, so can be a huge file). The program also maintains a backup copy of that file, in the Backup sub-folder, so problems are rare. At a pinch, the Mail.MSMessageStore file can be recreated from the data in the .eml files.[citation needed]
^ ab"Windows Essentials 2012 system requirements". Microsoft Windows Help. Microsoft. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
^Udezue, Oji (6 November 2007). "Windows Live Mail v1 is released!". More Than Mail blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014.
^"Download Windows Live Mail For Windows 10". Into Windows. 24 October 2015. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016.
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