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With Windows Live Mail, you can optionally use IMAP connections for reading incoming mail. Using IMAP (instead of the more widely used «POP3») allows you to keep your messages on our servers instead of downloading them to your computer.

Keeping your messages on our servers can be useful if you read mail two completely different ways. For example, if you use both Windows Live Mail and Webmail, each program will know what messages you’ve read, and the two programs will share a single «sent mail» folder on the server. (If you always read mail using a single copy of Windows Live Mail, using IMAP won’t make a difference and probably isn’t worth the effort.)

This page assumes that you have already followed the basic instructions to set up Windows Live Mail and chosen the IMAP option instead of POP. If you did not choose IMAP, you will need to delete the existing POP account that you defined, and then go through the instructions again, this time choosing «IMAP» instead of «POP3». (The port numbers will also be different.)

Configuring IMAP

To configure IMAP, you will:

Open the Properties settings window for your mail account.
Set the root folder path and specify folders for storing your drafts, deleted messages, and copies of sent messages.

1. Start the Windows Live Mail program.

Start Windows Live Mail via the Start button or other link.

When Windows Live Mail opens, click Tools, then Accounts from the menu bar. (If the program’s menu bar is not visible, hold down the Alt key and press the letter T, then release both keys.)

2. The «Accounts» window appears.

Highlight the email account you wish to change and click Properties.

The «Properties» window appears:

You should not need to change any of the settings on the General tab.

3. Set the IMAP folders.

Click the IMAP tab, then:

Enter Inbox for the «Root folder path».
Check the box marked «Check for new messages in all folders».

To have Windows Live Mail save drafts, deleted messages, and copies of sent messages on the IMAP server (rather than on your PC), set the following options:

Check the box marked «Store special folders on IMAP server». (Otherwise drafts, deleted, and sent messages will be stored on your local hard disk, called «Storage Folders» by Windows Live Mail.)
Enter Sent for the «Sent Items Path».
Enter Drafts for the «Drafts path».
Enter Trash for the «Deleted Items path».
You can leave the «Junk path» set to whatever folder name you desire.

The values Sent , Drafts , and Trash are case-sensitive. Be sure to enter them exactly as shown (one capital letter and the rest lowercase), and not, for example, as «sent» or «SENT».

4. Close the setup windows.

Click OK to close the Properties window, then click Close to close the Accounts window. If Windows Live then asks you whether you would like to refresh your folder list choose Yes.

Windows Live Mail is now setup to use IMAP!

You’re finished! Try sending yourself a test email message to make sure it works.

What if my Inbox disappears?

We have seen customers encounter a problem where if they refresh their IMAP folder list several times, the Inbox disappears from the list of folders (but all of the messages are still safely in the Inbox on our server). If this happens to you, try going back to step 3 above and clearing the «Root folder path», click OK and Close and let it refresh the folder list, then go back and restore Inbox as the «Root folder path».

If that doesn’t fix the problem, then the only other solution is to delete the mail account within Windows Live Mail, then re-create it. Hopefully Microsoft will fix this bug in the future.

Finding the Windows Mail Store Folder

Locate the POP3 email store folder on your computer

You can see your Windows Mail emails in your Mail inbox and other folders, but they also live somewhere else on your drive. Locating the folder where Windows Mail keeps its folders and messages is not immediately apparent, but it’s not difficult to find, assuming you use the POP3 protocol. After you locate the folder, you can back up your email.

Identify Your Windows Mail Store Folder Location

The Windows Mail store folder can only be located if you use POP3 with Windows Mail. POP3 is designed to save .eml files on your computer. If you use IMAP with Windows Mail, the mail is not downloaded and stored as .eml files, so you can’t back up email in this manner. To find the Windows Mail store folder:

Select Tools > Options from the menu.

In Windows Mail, go to the Advanced tab and select Maintenance.

Click on the Store Folder button.

Highlight the full folder location by clicking on the location with the right mouse button and choosing Select All from the pop-up menu.

Press Ctrl-C to copy the string.

Open the Windows Mail Store Folder in Windows Explorer

Now that you have the path to your Windows Mail store folder in the clipboard, it’s easy to go to that folder in Windows Explorer:

Press Windows + R.

Press Ctrl + V to paste the folder location in the Open box.

Click OK to open the store folder in a Windows Explorer window.

After you have opened the store folder successfully, go back to Windows Mail and close the Store Location and Options dialogs with their Cancel buttons and the Maintenance button in Windows Mail using Close.

If You Can’t Launch Windows Mail

If you cannot launch Windows Mail to identify the store folder in use:

Look in this standard location: C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\Packages\ and open the folder \LocalState\Indexed\LiveComm. If you don’t find the store folder there, try C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail.

Locate the Mail folder and open it to see the .eml files inside.

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Judy Olson asked in what folder Windows Live Mail stores your inbox and other mail folders.

Windows Live Mail—part of Microsoft’s Windows Live series of free downloads—is the logical successor to Vista’s Windows Mail and XP’s Outlook Express (Windows 7 doesn’t come with a mail client). It works in XP and Vista as well as Windows 7.

If you’ve installed Windows Live Mail in Vista or Windows 7, chances are your email is stored in subfolders of C:\Users\ logon \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail, where logon is, of course, the name you use to log onto Windows.

If you installed Windows Live Mail into XP, the path is probably C:\Documents and Settings\ logon \Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail.

You may run into trouble navigating Windows Explorer to either of those folders, however. That’s because several of the folders within those paths are hidden. But you can easily get inside the hidden folders via the command prompt. In Vista or Windows 7, click Start, type %homepath%\appdata\local, and press ENTER. In XP, click Start, then Run, type %homepath%\local settings\application data, and press ENTER. You’ll still have to drill down a few folders from there, but those folders will all be visible.

If the Windows Live Mail folder isn’t where I told you it would be, here’s how to find it: In Windows Live Mail, press ALT to bring up the old-fashioned menus and select Tools, then Options. Click the Advanced tab, then the Maintenance button. Click the Store Folder button. And there it is.

February 23: I have altered this post, replacing yourlogon with logon for consistency sake.

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