Windows 10 Feature Update 2004 appears to have broken Windows Live Mail

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Have just installed Windows 10 Feature Update 2004 but Windows Live Mail appears to no longer work. The app opens and emails appear but unable to open them - a variety of "Could not write this message to disk" and "Check your computer for low memory"

Is anyone else who still uses Windows Live Mail getting this as well and is there a workaround?

I appreciate Microsoft no longer supports Windows Live Mail but it has functionality that the alternative Mail app doesn't have such as send/receive on all mail accounts with one button and a better layout (imo)

thanks ...

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I think i have written clearly the exact error message and not just "I get an error message". I think i've seen that phrase as a stock answer in another post and you may have accidentally applied it to mine.

OK. Here are the further details of the "Could not write this message to disk"

This happens on both microsoft and non-microsoft accounts

Configuration:

   Account: Googlemail ([redacted])

   Server: imap.googlemail.com

   Username: [redacted]

   Protocol: IMAP

   Port: 993

   Secure(SSL): 1

   Code: 800c013e

Configuration:

   Account: Hotmail.co (redacted)

   Server: imap-mail.outlook.com

   Username: [redacted]@hotmail.co.uk

   Protocol: IMAP

   Port: 993

   Secure(SSL): 1

   Code: 800c013e

This appears once only on selecting the email and then in the preview pane i get the message below, (for info i am not low on memory or disk space. This is the first app i open with 24GB RAM.)

Message could not be displayed

Windows Live Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again.

Windows Live Mail Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331)

Windows Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.329)

Finally, i am able to read emails that were received before the Feature Update 2004, I am only unable to read emails received after Feature Update 2004, hence the title of my post.

I await further instruction, thank you.

Try the solution posted by WLMUser2020 on the equivalent Germain site to this one. (you may need to use Google translate).

https://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/windowslive/forum/all/probleme-mit-windows-live-mail-seit-mai-update/297c8827-55ce-4f57-8422-7fe6fdba642c

WLMUser2020's solution has worked perfectly for me. I can now send and receive emails and view them and view all new emails received. I can now right click view and edit properties of my email accounts (one is a Hotmail account) which would not work after the Windows 10 2004 update.

All seems to be working that was working previously for me in Windows 10 Ver 1909.

Hope this works for you and interested others, as it did for me.

Kind Regards

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Anonymous

2020-12-30T15:18:21+00:00

In step 11 you say " As for the "=1": In the third column, "Data", a bunch of zeros appears, at the end of which is "(0)". Change the (0) to (1). This is the "= 1" referenced above."

I have no idea what you are saying here.
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Anonymous

2020-10-23T14:08:46+00:00

Works for me after 2004 update, wen Live Mail stopped.
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Anonymous

2020-10-04T19:20:56+00:00

Thank you very much for sharing this. Fixed and back on track.
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Anonymous

2020-10-03T01:40:57+00:00

The description in the bottom-right corner of the program window refers to whether you are connected to the e-mail server or not.

It reflects whether the WLM program thinks it can reach the mail server -- so it's really a means of telling you the status of your internet connection.

It's only a status bar. You CANNOT use it to control your internet connection, it can only report the connection's status.

All the Calendars still exist!

You can store entries in any calendar you choose; but the calendars no longer sync with one another. Any entries added to the online calendar will notget added to your local calendar.

Make sure you are really looking at the one stored in your main local account in WLM, and not (a) the one stored online, nor (b) one stored in some other e-mail account in WLM.

As stated previously, if you click the 'work offline' button in the 'ribbon' you should be seeing the calendar stored locally, and if you click that button again - now it is labelled 'work online' - you should be seeing the calendar stored online.

They do not sync any more.

You use the button labelled 'work online/offline' to choose which calendar you see - the online one, or the local one for the email account you have selected in WLM.
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