HOW TO GET AROUND WINDOWS 8 EMAIL
As you probably know using Windows 8 'Mail' client doesn't support POP mail accounts (yahoo, earthlink etc).  A way around this is to use Windows Mail from the Essentials programs collection and configure it to then access your POP email account.  However, in order to do this you must make an important change--Essentials requires .NET Framework 3.5 and Windows 8 comes with 4.5 already installed.  In order to make Essentials Windows Mail compatible do this before installing Essentials--go to Control Panel, then type Features in the search box, then click 'Turn Windows features on or off'.  In the resulting dialog box check .NET Framework 3.5.  Windows may  need to download the required files from Windows update...When finished you can install Mail.