Talk:Windows Mail (Vista)

Removed Features
Any other wikipedians notice that you can't access web based email (e.g. Hotmail) via WM as you could with OE? This isn't mentioned in Removed Features section but I don't have a source for it. Original Research not accepted, so if someone has a source maybe you could add it to the list? Of course if you have POP access with your Web Based email you can use WM with that, but the http protocols (e.g. Hotmail) are not supported. This comment was left by §©ʁİƃƀȴıŋ’ Ƨł₥ȫȠ   14:18, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Windows Mail Logo
Would it be okay for me legal wise to use the Windows Mail icon in low resolution format (64 pixel) like that on the Wiki page? I would not save the image to my FTP but use the image URL ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Windows_Mail_logo.png/64px-Windows_Mail_logo.png ) that is already uploaded to WikiMedia. Thanks so much, this is for my contact page on my website! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spencercjohnson (talk • contribs) 00:49, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd advise against it. First, you're using the Wiki servers for your site, adn thus using their bandwidth for your own purposes, which is not nice. Second, the image's use on wikipedia is informative, while you plan to use it to spice up your own site, which is not considered fair use. Erik 22:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Uninstall Windows Mail
Does anyone have a problem if I post a link on how to uninstall Windows Mail? -- (Mrja84 (talk) 12:48, 26 April 2009 (UTC))

Windows Mail in Windows 7
"Windows Mail" is not removed on Windows 7, it's still there (C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\) but it's disabled. It's needed to mess with lots of settings to activate it (manuals about that can be found in the Internet). You might want to add it. Galzigler (talk) 10:53, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Mail app in Windows 8 and proposed merger with Mail (Windows)
When sending an e-mail from Windows 8's metro-app named mail it states as being send from Windows Mail, and ALL of Windows Live's services are said to be R.T.M. in some form in Windows 8, sometimes by functionality (like the image sharing options in the file explorer rather than a Windows (Live) Photo Gallery-only version of the Ribbon), and in this case also in name. Many things written as Vista only were put back in in Windows 8. --86.81.201.94 (talk) 18:53, 23 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Agreed! What about a merger with the page Mail (Windows)? Both act as the default, built-in mail apps for their respective OSes and as an alternative to Outlook or Windows Live Mail. There is precedent for treating UWP system apps as the successors to Win32 system apps. Also, both pages have to include "not to be confused with" to redirect to the other page and users have previously expressed confusion on the talk pages and edit history pages. Since Microsoft is clumsy and imprecise with its naming conventions, why do we draw a distinction?


 * If no one objects or no one has answered this post by 23:59 UTC on July 25, 2016, I'll go ahead and merge.


 * Thanks, Onecatowner (talk) 18:36. 18 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Hey. For a merger, you need to place appropriate notification messages on the article itself and wait a reasonable amount of time after inserting that message. I will do it for you this time, so that you learn. But you can read about it in Merging.  Fleet  Command ( Speak your mind! ) 08:13, 19 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much! Onecatowner (talk) 16:31. 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, but merging does not make sense at all, for two heavy reasons: 1st the page is connected with other languages (that all also only treat "Vista Mail"; and 2nd on the Mail (Windows) page, the main aspect is the mail programme in different windows versions. Here on this page the main topic is this version in extended explanation. By redirecting lots of information gets lost, what does not make sense as the difference between OE and WMV is main topic here, but not on the page Mail (Windows). --ProloSozz (talk) 23:58, 16 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi ProloSozz,


 * The editors for the English version decided that they are fundamentally the same thing. The article does distinguish between versions. I've been reprimanded myself for making aggressive changes against the consensus. The best way to contest a consensus decision is by putting it for a vote on this page in a dedicated section. (See the talk page for Windows 8 for an example of that process. In the meanwhile, I am reverting your changes.


 * If editors for other languages disagree with the merge made in English, a faster and easier solution may be to change the file names of screenshots used in those languages, as different languages edit articles (semi-)independently.


 * Best, Onecatowner (User talk:Onecatowner) 02:35, 17 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Again: it does not make sense to merge; same thing with Windows 8 and 8.1 (also there both have separate articles). Btw.: where is the "consensus"? It's your proposition and one help how to do, but neither discusson, nor votes (neither pro, nor objection). That's not "consensus" in the sense of the term. As you can see and as the links with other languages show the two articles are far from being the same thing. Btw: just had today a support case with problems that show that Windows Mail (Vista) and the others are absolutely not "the same thing". It really does not make sense to deprive all the users of the english WP that Vista had an evolvement of Outlook Express. If you "delete" Windows Mail (Vista), then you also have to delete the article about Outlook Express. And that does absolutely not make sense. Same thing here. Sorry, there IS and WAS NO CONSENSUS! --ProloSozz (talk) 11:14, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

The article is no longer under the lemma "Windows Mail", but under the lemma "Windows Mail (Vista)"; a redirect to "Mail (Windows)" does make even less sense than before! --ProloSozz (talk) 12:11, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Windows Mail (Vista) has the right to exist as a separate article also in the english WP
As you can see on the left side of the article of Windows Mail (Vista) all the following languages have a separate article about Windows Mail (Vista) that does not correspond to the article about Mail (Windows) or Windows Live Mail; they are all crosslinked to THIS article (an not to the new Mail (Windows): So there is absolutely no reason to deny the right of existence for a separate article about Windows Mail (Vista) also in the english version of Wikipedia. --ProloSozz (talk) 01:09, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
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 * There may be many reasons other language versions have separate articles, but that is of no relevance here. There has been previous consensus that this page should be a redirect. --John B123 (talk) 11:11, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


 * The former consensus for a redirect is no longer valid as follows:
 * a) it was done in a time when the lemma of this article was Windows Mail (only) and NOT Windows Mail (Vista)
 * b) the article describes Windows Mail (Vista) (only) and not ANY Windows Mail Client (as a generic term) (
 * c) other Windows Mail Clients also have their own spearate article (see the disambiguation remark on top of Mail (Windows)); among them Windows Live Mail and others.
 * d) the substance of the description of Windows Mail (Vista) was strongly reduced in the generic article about Windows Mail Clients (Mail (Windows).
 * e) as Windows Mail (Vista) is still usable on recent Windows the relevance is still given.
 * f) the proposition for a merge came from an IP-Adress and not from a subscribed user
 * g) the "consensus" was driven upon things like "The editors for the English version decided that they are fundamentally the same thing." As the new Windows Mail (of Windows 8) is an (full screen) app (and not a program) they ARE NOT "fundamentally the same" ... and as said (cf. a): that was meant for the lemma "Windows Mail", not for "Windows Mail (Vista)". Otherwise also the right of existence of articles for Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express etc. would need to be denied, what is not the case.
 * These all reasons why that "consensus" is no longer valid and therefore not applicable
 * Btw.: the MAIN "problem" of this artcile (to not be only a redirect) was the bad idea of Microsoft to name the new Windows Mail Client of Windows Vista only "Windows Mail". If this Mail Client of Windows Vista would not have got that generic Name this dispute would be completely obsolete and the article and the right of existence of a separate article of the "last Version of Outlook Express" would be respected without any questions. --ProloSozz (talk)
 * Btw: if there was a "consensus" then it was only the fact that the lemma Windows Mail should be either the current built in Windows Mail Client - or an overview of built in Windows Mail Clients; not less an not more; and this consensus does no longer apply as soon as Windows Mail (Vista) got an own article that was NOT in the lemma Windows Mail. --ProloSozz (talk) 07:15, 21 September 2020 (UTC)