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Windows Live Mail 2012 migration: Wil Thunderbird sync outlook email and contacts?

peterbodea
peterbodea

Hi. I was using Windows Live Mail for years with my 2 Hotmail accounts. Now Microsoft is ending support for WLM. Is Thunderbird a good option? Will is sync all emails and contacts in real time? Will it store all 20k emails on my hard drive so I can easily search and find my old emails? Will it be the default mail handler app so my Office and Adobe reader will recognize it and open it when I select "email" the particular Doc or PDF? Thank you for your support!

Hi. I was using Windows Live Mail for years with my 2 Hotmail accounts. Now Microsoft is ending support for WLM. Is Thunderbird a good option? Will is sync all emails and contacts in real time? Will it store all 20k emails on my hard drive so I can easily search and find my old emails? Will it be the default mail handler app so my Office and Adobe reader will recognize it and open it when I select "email" the particular Doc or PDF? Thank you for your support!

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Hi peterbodea, Thunderbird can connect to your Hotmail (Outlook.com) accounts using IMAP. However, IMAP syncs mail only, not contacts.

There is an add-on named ExQuilla that would allow you to sync mail, contacts, and calendar using ActiveSync (a technology in the new Outlook.com platform that Thunderbird doesn't support by itself). ExQuilla has a license fee of $10/year after an initial try-out period.

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/exquilla-exchange-web-services/

Thunderbird will store your mail locally, and you shouldn't have a problem making Thunderbird your default mail client. I don't know how to compare its search features with those in WLM; maybe someone else can answer that part.

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Hi peterbodea, Thunderbird can connect to your Hotmail (Outlook.com) accounts using IMAP. However, IMAP syncs mail only, not contacts.

There is an add-on named ExQuilla that would allow you to sync mail, contacts, and calendar using ActiveSync (a technology in the new Outlook.com platform that Thunderbird doesn't support by itself). ExQuilla has a license fee of $10/year after an initial try-out period.

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/exquilla-exchange-web-services/

Thunderbird will store your mail locally, and you shouldn't have a problem making Thunderbird your default mail client. I don't know how to compare its search features with those in WLM; maybe someone else can answer that part.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer

By the way, I don't think your Outlook.com account will be enabled for ActiveSync access until it is switched to the new infrastructure, by which time you probably will be under extreme time pressure to switch mail clients. If you want to test how Thunderbird and/or ExQuilla works, you could create a second account on Outlook.com now.