Windows Live Mail...is Rubbish

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So I got fed up with having to go to hotmail.com each time to check my emails.

Thought I'd try this windows live mail thingie that I found in the start menu. Well, its pants.

It asks for the password, good...but before you even type it in, ALL my emails show up in the program. Yes, every single one of my emails can be read without typing in a password.

What kind of pants security is this? So I was wondering if anyone can help me get it working so that you actually need to type in the password to read emails.

I know about gmail but I'd rather keep using my live email if I can, I'm looking for work and sent it to a lot of employers.

Thanks
 
So you are saying you never entered your password in the account setup and yet they all appeared......i dont think so!
 
Yes I did enter it in the account setup.

But when you load the program, it asks you for your username and password.

Without entering a password, all my emails are available to read.

I don't have the automatic sign in checked.
 
They are there because they have been downloaded from hotmail after setup. To get the fresh ones it wants your username and password.

This is normal if you for some strange reason dont allow it to auto sign in.
 
Because its remembered the details! Obvious really.

Not sure what the problem is, have you only ever used a webmail interface?
 
I suspect the emails you can read before you login online are those that were downloaded locally the last time you logged in. With the emails being local on your machine they are protected by your windows loging and password the same as the rest of your docs/music/photos/programs etc.

Live Mail then won't download any NEW mail until you do your email login to access the account online. If it is I can only think you are actually logged into your live ID somewhere - have you tied it to you Windows login account or perhaps have Live messenger running?

Probably worth making sure you have the latest version of Live Mail as well, http://get.live.com
 
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Just create a new user account? It's not really anything WLM is doing wrong, it's just not a feature of that particular client. I think Thunderbird will do what you're asking.
 
Athanor said:
I suspect the emails you can read before you login online are those that were downloaded locally the last time you logged in. With the emails being local on your machine they are protected by your windows loging and password the same as the rest of your docs/music/photos/programs etc.

Live Mail then won't download any NEW mail until you do your email login to access the account online.

Email ID and Password only works to protect access to your online email, not local data which previous mails are in this case as you've chosen to download them previously.

Probably worth making sure you have the latest version of Live Mail as well, http://get.live.com
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Well I don't want to be able to see even my OLD emails without a password.

My family uses this pc so its a bit lax.
 
oli356 said:
Lol, Windows can have multiple users.... For reasons like this! :O
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Indeed, the suggestion then is to create a specific user in Windows for each Member of the family so you all have private access to your own email/documents/photos etc (although keep in mind any user based on an admin will have access to everything).

If the rest of the family is happy as things are just create a new user for you in control panel/users and you'll have your own seperate password protected login leaving the rest of the family with their current login.
 
I think it is generally good practice to setup seperate user accounts on a shared PC anyway.

What I don't really understand is that you are "fed up with having to go to hotmail.com each time to check my emails" but surely that isn't much more effort than having to load Windows Live Mail and then enter password every time? One of the advantages from using a dedicated mail application is that you don't need to login, but since you want to do that every time a web based interface should be fine, assuming of course that you don't ever need to access emails offline.
 
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