Windows Live Mail - A Nice Touch
I upgraded yesterday to the new betas from Windows Live, including the latest version of Windows Live Mail. There were the usual batch of bug fixes, performance tweaks and UI changes, but one little addition caught my eye this morning:
When you select the "Junk E-mail" folder (usually to check for false-positives or just to empty the folder), you no longer get a "preview pane". That means that you don't have to read spam just to delete it.
Since a lot of spam relies on you actually seeing the message (with embedded images etc), I thought this was a really nice touch. Now you have to deliberately open spam email before you see the contents, and you can delete it unread.
If you're interested in checking out the new Live betas, you can install a whole bunch of 'em in one hit (you get to choose which ones, of course) from here. Take a look!
Comments
# Paula
17/03/2008 3:37 AM
I think Windows Live eMail, simply sucks. There is no longer the ability to edit the source code of any message. I would more often than not use special style codes and tables, and none of that can be done any longer, not to mention you have to place images where the software wants to put them, again, can't alter the code to say: align="left" so that you can create vspace and hspace and write text on the first line to the right of the image... it sucks.
# mabster
17/03/2008 8:09 AM
Your requirements do sound a little more edgy than the target audience for WLM, Paula. I doubt many users would care too much about the HTML source of their email messages.
99% of my messages are plain text - I don't enable HTML email by default.
But saying that a product "sucks" because it doesn't meet your specific need is a bit harsh. My iPod doesn't play WMA files, but I'd never say it sucks.