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Hello and welcome to BBB! I'm a bit confused. Here's why:
If you are truly not online in WLM, the 2 choices are to either show your offlines immediately upon logging in, or to show them as a link on the main screen of WLM. They should not go to email.
If you are appearing offline, what someone believes is an offline they are sending you will come thru like any other IM. You can then choose to respond or not, but if you do they obviously know you are online. These do not go to email if you choose not to answer them.
The only way I'm aware of to get an IM to go to email would be if your contact is choosing to send you an email instead of instant message because they can't see you online (whether you are or not is irrelevant). Instead of choosing send an Instant Message, they are probably choosing Send Other, and selecting email as the choice.
I'd verify with your contacts how they are sending the messages. You don't mention that when you are online any messages are being dropped. I don't think it's anything wrong on your end, more likely it's a misunderstanding of how offlines work on the part of your contact. You could test this by having an online conversation with someone and then changing to appear offline and seeing if the messages continue to come thru.
Please let me know what turns up from this information. In all my dealings with WLM I've never even heard this one before and it has me quite perplexed if it's not what I've stated above. I'd really like to know the outcome.
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