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  • WLM still picking up Hotmail

    From David@21:1/5 to David on Thu Sep 15 15:39:31 2016
    On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:28:51 +0000, David wrote:

    With all the posting about WLM no longer connecting to outlook.com I
    expected that I would no longer be able to pick up Hotmail.

    However I just received an email about changes to terms of use and
    privacy to both my Hotmail accounts.

    Checking WLM these are set up as HTML connections, so not POP3 or IMAP4.

    So what is going on?

    Well, over the last few weeks WLM has finally failed to pick up email for
    my Hotmail accounts.

    I have just reconfigured to use IMAP and it is working (sort of) in that I
    can see the folders (although part of the time it refuses to let me).

    I used this page

    <https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/accountsettings.htm#outlookcom-imap>

    for the server details and that seemed to be O.K. apart from one small
    error - it said "Outgoing server (SMTP): 587 (if using SSL: 465)" which
    should say "if NOT using SSL: 465".

    There do seem to be major performance issues when connecting; is anyone
    else seeing this (that is, if anyone else is using WLM and IMAP for Hotmail accounts)?


    Cheers


    Dave R



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  • From skyrail@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 15 22:39:58 2016
    "David" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion : [email protected]...

    On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:28:51 +0000, David wrote:

    With all the posting about WLM no longer connecting to outlook.com I
    expected that I would no longer be able to pick up Hotmail.

    However I just received an email about changes to terms of use and
    privacy to both my Hotmail accounts.

    Checking WLM these are set up as HTML connections, so not POP3 or IMAP4.

    So what is going on?

    Well, over the last few weeks WLM has finally failed to pick up email for
    my Hotmail accounts.

    I have just reconfigured to use IMAP and it is working (sort of) in that I >can see the folders (although part of the time it refuses to let me).

    I used this page

    <https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/accountsettings.htm#outlookcom-imap>

    for the server details and that seemed to be O.K. apart from one small
    error - it said "Outgoing server (SMTP): 587 (if using SSL: 465)" which >should say "if NOT using SSL: 465".

    There do seem to be major performance issues when connecting; is anyone
    else seeing this (that is, if anyone else is using WLM and IMAP for Hotmail >accounts)?


    Cheers


    Dave R




    Hey Dave.
    I switched to IMAP too. But I've been using, through WLM, IMAP and Deltasync
    in parallel since several month. I should say from the moment IMAP settings where available.
    As far as I can see, I've had performance issues downloading messages with IMAP, at the beginning.
    Now, it's almost as fast as all my other email accounts accessing IMAP
    servers (yahoo, gmail)

    Maybe, you have too many message headers to refresh and WLM possibly
    download it all prior to display it in the folder?
    This why I choose to sync headers only. I just wanna check which messages I should read first. Don't want to be forced waiting.

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  • From ...winston@21:1/5 to David on Sat Sep 17 03:41:25 2016
    "David" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

    Well, over the last few weeks WLM has finally failed to pick up email for
    my Hotmail accounts.

    I have just reconfigured to use IMAP and it is working (sort of) in that I
    can see the folders (although part of the time it refuses to let me).

    I used this page <https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/accountsettings.htm#outlookcom-imap>
    for the server details and that seemed to be O.K. apart from one small
    error - it said "Outgoing server (SMTP): 587 (if using SSL: 465)" which
    should say "if NOT using SSL: 465".

    There do seem to be major performance issues when connecting; is anyone
    else seeing this (that is, if anyone else is using WLM and IMAP for Hotmail accounts)?


    Cheers
    Dave R

    IMAP performance for Outlook.com type accounts(Outlook/Live/Hotmail/Msn.com)
    in WLM has been sporadic for quite some time though after account migration from the old server to new Office 365 server you should not be seeing a degradation but an improvement.

    Depending upon the size of your message store(while using DeltaSync -
    mirrored locally and online), WLM could take some time to index if the
    quantity of messages and folders are substantial.
    - all Outlook.com type accounts will be migrated and hosted on the new
    backend server

    If previously using DeltaSync and the account was migrated, DeltaSync is not supported on the new backend Office 365 server.

    To determine if the account was migrated, logon at outlook.com with the
    account username and password. After logon, if it says 'Outlook Mail' above
    the web Inbox, the account was migrated (for WLM your only choices are IMAP
    or POP3, the latter, after migration, now requires POP3 to be enabled in the account's web UI settings.)


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    msft mvp windows experience

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