What this means is, if you install Windows Live Mail 2011 it can be configured to work with any e-mail service that offers one or more of the following three types of connection, namely IMAP or POP3 or DeltaSync.Īlmost every email service in the world offers IMAP, so the best option is usually to set up Windows Live Mail to use IMAP.

Windows Live Mail 2011 uses DeltaSync, the protocol which many e-mail services use, so is a better choice (from the point of view of compatibilty) than Windows Live Mail 2012, which uses Exchange ActiveSync, which only Microsoft services use.īoth Windows Live Mail 2011 and Windows Live Mail 2012 support IMAP and POP3, so any account which supports use of either of those (ubiquitous) protocols can be used with either WLM 2011 or WLM 2012, including non-Microsoft e-mail services. When Windows 7 came along, Microsoft separated the app from the OS and released a new version as part of the Windows Essentials suite. Includes Windows Live Mail 2011: this version uses DeltaSync (not Exchange ActiveSync), for wider compatibility with non-Microsoft email services including Gmail or any other service based on DeltaSync. A version of it that was exceedingly popular was included with Windows XP and Vista. Windows Live Essentials 2011, off-line installer.

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