Configure Windows Live Mail to connect to Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Mail
Sat, 01/12/2008 - 20:33 — Alexandru Toma
If you will try to configure Windows Mail to retrieve your e-mail messages from services such as Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Mail, you will always receive the following error message: 'Windows Mail no longer supports the HTTP servers used by Hotmail and other web-based e-mail providers'. That's because, for reasons known only by Microsoft, HTTP forwarding is no longer supported in Windows Mail. You can retrieve your e-mail messages only if you use their newest e-mail client called Windows Live Mail.
In our future articles we will talk more about this new e-mail client. For now, I will show you how to configure it to connect to Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Mail, and access your e-mail from your computer.
First, download and install Windows Live Mail. Then launch it and look for the 'Add an e-mail account' button.
Now complete the following fields with your personal information as shown below.
After you have filled all your personal information, click on Next. In the next window check the box that says 'Set this account as the default mail account'.
Congratulations! This is all there is to it.Now Windows Live Mail will automatically download all your e-mail messages.
Related articles:
Windows Live Mail - A short overview
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VISTA theyre in your my folder/documents/livemail. within there, theyre located at various spots depending on how clean you keep your in box. it should be pretty obvious once your in this folder
windows live is unable receive mails from pop.gmail.com
The gmail account is configured successfully. but the mails are not downloaded from pop.gmail.com. it is showing an error unable connect POP3 server....
i am able to send/receive mails from yahoo.com
Kindly help me on this..
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i have a bt internet account. i can recieve mail but not send any. I get an error window saying the incoming server failed eventhough it is the same as the outgoing one. a few weeks ago i could send mail now i can't.
Unable to Download email
Dear Sir,
I had just started using Windows Live mail ....I am having problem with my email account as it keeps telling me that I have an incorrect password ......when i do the same setup in Microsoft Outlook, the said email works perfectly !!!!!!
Am i doing something incorrect or is there a setting that I had a problem with ??
Regards
weng
Unable to download Windows Live Mail
I have a windows live hotmail email account and windows live messenger. I've tried to download windows live mail, but it never will complete. It keeps saying I'm not connected to the internet. But I am or I wouldn't be able to click the download link?
Any ideas of why this is happening and how to resolve it?
Thank you
I do not see the same screen
I do not see the same screen as shown in the 2nd image above. I get a screen asking for POP3 and smtp details. I have followed the instructions above exactly.
Re: Windows live configuration
hi i have followed carefully the step by step instruction on windows live mail still it is not running when it sign in wiht hotmail. pls reply for further assistance
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when ever i try window live mail it shows an error message about wrong password while its not so.incoming mail server is pop3.live.com.HELP!
Window Mail and Window Live Mail.
I have luck setting up Window Live Mail as opposed to Window Mail. Can
anyone explain to me the different between Window Live and Window Mail? It's very confusing. Why is it hard to setup Window Mail? I tried
using pop3.mail.live.ca and smtp.mail.live.ca on Window Mail and it failed.
What did I do wrong?
Vista & Windows Live
Thank you so much...this was such a helpful set up!! I have been fighting with this for 3 days now and this website made it sooooo simple!! What a lifesaver...way too much stress over the past couple days!!
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