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Windows Live Mail 2012 switch off in June

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As Microsoft are switching off WLM 2012 ahead of their outlook mail upgrades, I have looked at Mozilla Thunderbird and it appears in all respects a program that can allow me to avoid the Windows 10 Mail App that they recommend as an alternative to WLM 2012. One question though; when outlook does begin migration - will Mozilla Thunderbird work with all of the outlook email protocols (live, Hotmail, outlook....) after this happens? Any advice seriously appreciated as I think the mail app embedded into windows 10 is a nasty piece of work.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/outlook/66990/windows-live-mail-2012-will-not-work-new-outlook-com

As Microsoft are switching off WLM 2012 ahead of their outlook mail upgrades, I have looked at Mozilla Thunderbird and it appears in all respects a program that can allow me to avoid the Windows 10 Mail App that they recommend as an alternative to WLM 2012. One question though; when outlook does begin migration - will Mozilla Thunderbird work with all of the outlook email protocols (live, Hotmail, outlook....) after this happens? Any advice seriously appreciated as I think the mail app embedded into windows 10 is a nasty piece of work. https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/outlook/66990/windows-live-mail-2012-will-not-work-new-outlook-com

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See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1121590

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