Windows Mail problem

HI,

I don''t know how to navigate this message board. But I hope I am close enough. I have a problem with Windows Mail (for my Vista system). The problem is simply this: I use two web-based emails (Yahoo and Earthlink). In both cases, I must keep my emails on-line for a long time -several years. I need to have portable access to them even when I am away from my computer. I can't be alone in this.

Yet I also want to use the Windows Mail successor to Outlook. I can't figure out an intelligent way to use this program with my needs. Because I keep email on the servers, each time I download the new emails I copy the older ones first. I now have three sets of copies of the older emails, which I then have to manually delete from Windows Mail. There must be a better way!

First, is it possible to download messages from most recent to older, so that I can stop the downloading when it gets to mail I already have downloaded?

Second is it possible to put a 'range' of time that I want to download mail (i.e. backwards, say until 2010 but not further)?

Third is it possible to delete the multiple copies of emails on Web Mail that I have so that I do not have the duplicates, but do not have to remove them -very laboriously- by going through my entire folder on Web Mail? Is there some automatic way to do this or is there a program or function I can use?


Thank You,

Re: Windows Mail problems

I have now given up on WM .... on advice I moved to the free appication

Mozilla Thunderbird ....
Took a little while to convert and get it set up ......... but it is so much better.

Re: Windows Mail problems

Tafflad,

Since you are responding to my post, and you do not mention whether Mozilla Solves my specific problems, I wonder whether they do or not. Since you use it, could you tell me whether it performs those functions? No sense in me investing all this work you mention if there it is no better in these respects.