Sent emails not showing in Windows Live Mail "Sent Items" folder

Anonymous
2011-03-29T17:53:49+00:00

My sent email message are not showing up in my Windows Live Mail "Sent Items" folder. However, my sent message are showing up in my Hotmail box in the "Sent" folder. My Hotmail has the same email address. I've used Windows Live Mail for years with no problem. How do I get my sent emails to show in my Windows Live Mail "Sent Items" folder? Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-05-16T03:53:29+00:00

    Hi paulinebutcher bird,

    Thank you for posting here in the Microsoft Account forums and we apologize for the delayed response.

    I understand that you had stopped seeing sent items on your sent folder since 02/24/2014 in Windows Live Mail [WLM].

    Initially, please sign in to Outlook.com or **mail.live.com** via web browser. Send a test mail to yourself afterwards and see if it will be registered on sent folder or if an error would appear.

    Regarding WLM, please remove and reconfigure the account. You may view the article 'Set up an email app with Outlook.com'

    Doing the reconfiguration may fix this. We look forward to your update.

    Regards,

    Roland

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-09T11:37:55+00:00

    I have the same problem. I notice that my inbox on Gmail is IMAP but the outbox is smtp.gmail.com

    Would this be the source of my problem? Should I change this to IMAP? Will I cause further problems if I do?

     I found this when I right-clicked on G-mail in the Windows Live Mail page and then clicked on Servers.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-09T10:54:58+00:00

    Repost the question to where? There are many people having this same problem and you have given no assistance or solution to the problem. It does not solve the problem of why my sent items stopped appearing after February 24, 2014 in Windows Live Mail. And it does not solve the problem to change 'conversations' in View tab to 'off'.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-24T07:43:25+00:00

    I have the same problem and switching off conversations doesn't work.

    Ive tried signing out, exiting opening and signing in (the fix for incomplete distribution lists showing up in the to, cc and bcc lines).  Hoping that might also work here. No

    I can see the sent items if I log into Hotmail on the web.  I have another PC that has an older Windows live mail and the sent items are there.  I bought a new PC and after a long sync to the folders on the MS servers I hoped that all the emails and history was downladed

    I was hoping there would be a way to force synchronisation to update the WLM folders.

    I think this is a buggy new version, lots of Outlook like features, but to clever enough to work properly! Like having to switch off a feature to see messages, and reload to do something as simple as send to a disti list. Shame

    Any ideas, please on how I can see all my mails on my local PC, without having to go to theweb or fire up my aging old PC?

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-04-03T14:22:30+00:00

    That fixed it.  Thanks:)

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