feedback window live mail desktop

RSS feeds are a pain to work with. Yes it is really cool that Windows now supports a unified RSS store but none of the three apps that use the store (IE7, Outlook and now Desktop Mail) honor any folder layouts that might be in an OPML file you import. So I had to spend the better part of an hour resetting all my feeds in Desktop Mail; which isn't carried over to either of the other two apps using the store. URL links in all three sections are barfed It appears that the URL's in the preview pane just don't want to play nice. In emails and newsgroups they just don't want to work period. In RSS feeds clicking a link in the post body opens Explorer with the My Documents folder loaded, but clicking in the post topic in the headers will launch the link in your browser. Toolbars can't be modified In OE you can add/remove toolbar buttons by selecting the Customize menu item on the right-click context menu. In WLDM there is no option to change the available toolbar buttons. System tray icon PLEASE!!! .. why oh why are they still using that old icon. After looking at the new UI it is almost painful to see that old icon showing new mail in the system tray. New mail/post indicators in treeview listing Unless you have all the areas of the treeview listing expanded; and any sub folders, you have no way of telling if new mail and/or posts have arrived. Please guys even if it is only bold text give us some way of being notified that new newsgroups post, RSS feed posts have arrived even when the treeview sections are collapsed to their roots folders. Newsgroup polling. From what I can tell even if you have the newsgroup set to poll for new posts at the same time as your mail check it doesn't. Highlight quoting for replies Any newsreader worth its salt (MesNews, XanaNews to mention a couple) lets you select (highlight) a section of text that you want to use as quoted text in your reply to said post. Can it really be so hard to implement? RSS feed stylesheets One of the common features found is just about every quality RSS client is the ability to customize the the way the feeds are displayed using stylesheets. That option doesn't exist in WLDM and while it may seem like a small thing it may send folks back to using their regular readers instead. Blog It Hey folks not everyone uses MSN Spaces as their blog home. I can understand the need to integrate support for it and I congratulate you on going this far - it's a cool idea, but how about supporting other blogging engines as well. Send/Receive action Actually this complaint can also fall back to OE as well. Why is it if you have newsgroup accounts as well as email that when you click the Send/Receive toolbar button that it only checks your email accounts, even when you have the newsgroups set to sync at the same time. Doesn't this sorta strike you as a Duh! type of thing? Mark All Read for newsgroups. Why is this such a pain to do. The treeview context menu doesn't even have the option when a newsgroup is selected. The message list pane context menu doesn't have it; unless you Ctrl-A to select all the messages and then the Mark Read option is enabled. So for future reference remember the Ctrl-Shift-A keyboard shortcut (like that's even intuitive) Intermittent freezing with no real hint as to why. I left WLDM running all night since its install and when I turned on the monitor this morning to settle down with my coffee to read my mail etc I discovered that WLDM had decided at some point to use 100% of the CPU and freeze up my system. Task Manager showed that it definitely wasn't play nice but after I killed off the process the system return to normal. I have also noticed that at various times WLDM will just freeze up and then after a few seconds; or so it seems, it returns to its normal responsive self. I haven't been able to figure out why this is happening.

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RSS feeds are a pain to work with. Yes it is really cool that Windows now supports a unified RSS store but none of the three apps that use the store (IE7, Outlook and now Desktop Mail) honor any folder layouts that might be in an OPML file you import. So I had to spend the better part of an hour resetting all my feeds in Desktop Mail; which isn't carried over to either of the other two apps using the store. URL links in all three sections are barfed It appears that the URL's in the preview pane just don't want to play nice. In emails and newsgroups they just don't want to work period. In RSS feeds clicking a link in the post body opens Explorer with the My Documents folder loaded, but clicking in the post topic in the headers will launch the link in your browser. Toolbars can't be modified In OE you can add/remove toolbar buttons by selecting the Customize menu item on the right-click context menu. In WLDM there is no option to change the available toolbar buttons. System tray icon PLEASE!!! .. why oh why are they still using that old icon. After looking at the new UI it is almost painful to see that old icon showing new mail in the system tray. New mail/post indicators in treeview listing Unless you have all the areas of the treeview listing expanded; and any sub folders, you have no way of telling if new mail and/or posts have arrived. Please guys even if it is only bold text give us some way of being notified that new newsgroups post, RSS feed posts have arrived even when the treeview sections are collapsed to their roots folders. Newsgroup polling. From what I can tell even if you have the newsgroup set to poll for new posts at the same time as your mail check it doesn't. Highlight quoting for replies Any newsreader worth its salt (MesNews, XanaNews to mention a couple) lets you select (highlight) a section of text that you want to use as quoted text in your reply to said post. Can it really be so hard to implement? RSS feed stylesheets One of the common features found is just about every quality RSS client is the ability to customize the the way the feeds are displayed using stylesheets. That option doesn't exist in WLDM and while it may seem like a small thing it may send folks back to using their regular readers instead. Blog It Hey folks not everyone uses MSN Spaces as their blog home. I can understand the need to integrate support for it and I congratulate you on going this far - it's a cool idea, but how about supporting other blogging engines as well. Send/Receive action Actually this complaint can also fall back to OE as well. Why is it if you have newsgroup accounts as well as email that when you click the Send/Receive toolbar button that it only checks your email accounts, even when you have the newsgroups set to sync at the same time. Doesn't this sorta strike you as a Duh! type of thing? Mark All Read for newsgroups. Why is this such a pain to do. The treeview context menu doesn't even have the option when a newsgroup is selected. The message list pane context menu doesn't have it; unless you Ctrl-A to select all the messages and then the Mark Read option is enabled. So for future reference remember the Ctrl-Shift-A keyboard shortcut (like that's even intuitive) Intermittent freezing with no real hint as to why. I left WLDM running all night since its install and when I turned on the monitor this morning to settle down with my coffee to read my mail etc I discovered that WLDM had decided at some point to use 100% of the CPU and freeze up my system. Task Manager showed that it definitely wasn't play nice but after I killed off the process the system return to normal. I have also noticed that at various times WLDM will just freeze up and then after a few seconds; or so it seems, it returns to its normal responsive self. I haven't been able to figure out why this is happening.

This certainly is alot to think about, and I'm sure some Microsoft Dev's are reading it as well. But it is a beta test, only recently released unlike Windows Live Mail. There are many, many things I do not like about WLMD, but Microsoft is hard at work trying to make it more user friendly.
A few things I don't like: Headers in some messages are messed up bad, 'Search Email' box only searches your current folder, which is sort of nice. I have no scrollbar in messages formatted in Plain Text, the folders list was disabled for me by defaul. Newsgroup syncing is a pain. The Junk Mail folder doesn't download any messages from the server.
Alot of the things you said, I'm sure they will be fixing. Like the option to customize toolbars. I also really hope they fix some parts of the UI, like the tray icon and the send/receive box. A new GUI should be applied to everything imo.
- Charles