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Win 10 Mail, does any of it work properly?
I am a hold off and planned to keep Windows 7 to EOL in 2020. I recently did a Windows 7 to 10 upgrade for a friend and was so delighted with it that I now updated my own system to Windows 10. Very smooth install, update a few drivers and some programs, but working very well. Except for Mail.
What kind of joke is this Windows 7 Mail? It has to be the prettiest mail client I ever used, and the most inept and useless one at that. I install my AT&T email accounts and they configure nicely, but some never sync. I send myself some test mails, they never arrive but do arrive on my Android phone. There is no contact list, but typing a few bits into the To: line offers contact suggestions. This AT&T account I use most for friends and when I get, say, 2 emails and read them, they are gone! I must have hundreds or thousands of old emails, yet NONE show on Win10 email. Nothing to see. I used my Live 2012 server settings for win10 mail, did not work, says outdated settings. One hour later, "Not synced yet". Blue dots moving, no significant data downloading. No way to use with One Drive so I imagine sending 6 full size high res images will be a thing of the past. The gmail account synced well, I have mail going back to 2011 in that folder. My GoDaddy domain name email is working and showing past mail.
I will send a test mail from AT&T account to yahoo account to see if I can even send mail. Syncing, up to date, message present. Yahoo inbox somewhat full but I never used it until this year for things like web stuff that is not personal. I have 3 AT&T accounts. One is the Master account, never used for email. One for web/junk mail, and one for personal email. Personal one never syncs, it does send mail, but is otherwise useless with a totally empty inbox. Yahoo has email going back as far as 2011 in the inbox. I removed the obstinate AT&T account, reinstalled it, and same thing. Finally "up to date" with a "We didn't find anything here" message and not one single previous email in my box at all.
I get nagscreens several times a day that I do not have a default email client or the one I have cannot handle the requested protocol, use Outlook instead. Live 2012 is default and Outlook is even worse to setup than Win10 mail is. What kind of sick joke is this?
Is there anyway in hell to make Windows 10 email, get it to work as it should, and actually believe what it is telling me? Or have your guys switched over to "something good"? I am trying to continue to use Win10 webmail but if this situation does not improve, this new email has to GO!
What are you guys using for email on Windows 10? Is anyone happy with Win10 mail at all and what does it do for you? Can someone give me a workng AT&T email setup for win10 mail? I think if I had that, might have the patience to wait for bigger and better things like large file support backed by an MS drive and of course a bloody contact book of all things! Help me with this please!