Win 7 > 10 Upgrade - Windows Live Mail

[MatthewL]

I have a computer on 7 that I am going to upgrade to 10, no issues, will clone before I do it just incase but my question is will Windows Live Mail work ok on 10 as part of the upgrade or not?

 

I think moving forward Thunerbird is my answer but there is no easy way to migrate data into there from Live Mail, the only easy option I can see is to temporarily install Outlook migrate to a PST then import into Thunderbird.

 

Thoughts please, thanks.

[thimon]

Live Mail??? What's wrong with Outlook?

[DrBeaker]

Live Mail was part of Windows Essentials. I'm sure that's been discontinued. It was on Windows 7 I had it setup for people, but moved them over a web-email system (Gmail) to be honest. Is that an option?

[MatthewL]

Not licensed, it's a home user, uses open office for word/excel, used to be Outlook Express prior to migrating to Win7. Outlook is my preferred choice but need free in this instance.

[MatthewL]

They use VirginMedia ISP mail, got a pile of data local, would prefer to move it to Thunderbird and IMAP if I can, just need to know if anyone knows if Mail will work to save me hassle if not.

[jsa]

They use VirginMedia ISP mail, got a pile of data local, would prefer to move it to Thunderbird and IMAP if I can, just need to know if anyone knows if Mail will work to save me hassle if not.

 

I’ve used WLM 2012 on Windows 10 without problems before, although years ago- should be okay as a stopgap measure, definitely a good idea to see if you can export the data though and absolutely make backups of the mailbox files before you do the upgrade

[MatthewL]

Thanks for that. Just in process of imaging the machine, got backups of it all.

[stevewill6]

There is a Mail app in Windows 10. Give that a go its probably very similar.

[MatthewL]

Rather not, will stick to Thunderbird, easy to export the data and backup if needed!