How-To: Set Up E-Mail Accounts in Windows Live Mail

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Posted Nov 12, 2007 | by Rich Menga  

The new Windows Live Mail Client (essentially a rebadged Outlook Express with a new skin and some additional features) is a nice mail client considering it’s free. It has POP3, IMAP, Live.com and Hotmail.com support and is ready-to-run. You can get it at get.live.com. If Thunderbird isn’t your thing or if you’d rather use a client for Hotmail or Live.com mail, Windows Live Mail client is definitely worth a look.

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10 Responses to “How-To: Set Up E-Mail Accounts in Windows Live Mail”

  1. Joey Cabrera says:
    November 20, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    Hey Rich,
    I just watched your video on how to set up Imap (Gmail) into Outlook express. One of the things I really like about that is the tags or pseudo folders as you called it. Its very easy for me to move messages from my Hotmail account to those folders and use gmail as a storage place. I have recently installed Windows Live Mail thanks to your video, and set everything exactly as you did. However those folders are not there. The only ones are the default folders from Gmail. Do you know of any way to download these folders or set them into the gmail account in Windows Live Mail?

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  2. Rich Menga says:
    November 21, 2007 at 10:41 am

    In IMAP you “subscribe” to folders in order to see them. When you set up a new account in Outlook Express or Thunderbird they automatically appear. If they do not for whatever reason, remove the account from OE and try again. By default, all the tags-as-folders show up when placing an IMAP enabled Gmail account into OE for the first time.

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  3. Billy Potts says:
    December 11, 2007 at 11:05 am

    Hey thanks dude, recently put Vista on my Acer Laptop and forgot how to setup Live Mail.

    Cheers,
    Billy Potts.

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  4. Sam says:
    December 14, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    Hey Rich,

    Thanks for the Win-Live Video, nice refresher course.
    real quickly was wondering if i can forward my company email from my LIVE account to my IPHONE??

    thanks a lot

    sam

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  5. clarence says:
    April 24, 2008 at 9:31 am

    I am trying to set up my windos live mail to synce with my work email I dont know anything about computers and I dont know what my pop3 server or the ohther server is can someone help?

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  6. Rob says:
    September 7, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    I am trying to set up a sympatico account is it compatible with Windows Live mail becuasee you only set up gmail and live. if so how do i do it

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  7. Yussef says:
    September 28, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    How do i find out my incoming and outgoing servers if i want to set up my o2 email with my windows live mail?

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  8. Deborah says:
    February 8, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    This video didn’t help me. I have a live acct and after I put in my information it asked me for all kinds of server information etc…..wasn’t able to set any email up with this program…

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  9. Molly says:
    February 28, 2009 at 5:53 am

    Thanks so much! I couldn’t figure it out AT all. The one thing I still can’t do, is I can’t get my yahoo account hooked up write. Any help? If you know how answer me on my yahoo answers page http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqB6xojUKoSzhX.62rJao0jsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090227234815AAHhi5W

    thanks!!!

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  10. Paula Curtis says:
    October 27, 2009 at 8:06 am

    Very good video, now have my email set up on windows live, thanks.

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