"dadiOH" wrote in message ...

Not so. What is included is Windows Mail, a different thing. And a less
than good thing, IMO; You can set it up to retrieve mail from Google,
Hotmail and other such webby things but if you want POP3, forget it. IOW,
it is useless...if I wanted mail from Google, Hotmail and other such webby
things I'd just go there and get it.

If you want POP3, Windows LIVE Mail affords that opportunity IIRC but you
have to have a "Microsoft account". I have lived 80+ years without a
Microsoft account and I don't want one now, not even to enable me to buy
"apps" from their store.


A Microsoft Account in Windows Live Mail and other programs in the Windows
Essentials 2012 suite of programs is optionable (thus you can live a few
more years without a MSFT account if using WLM).


Two modes of operation are available
1. No connection to Microsoft cloud services (everything done locally, all
data stored locally)
2. Connection to MSFT cloud services with (everything done locally with all
data stored both locally and online in the MSFT Account)

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....winston
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