Connecting New Website Email Accounts to Windows Live Mail

[TooheyTom]

I watched the 5-part series on Windows Live Mail and it was a tremendous help. It's what got me to sign up for your year-long support. I figured if you could hold my hand like that and "show" me instead of my having to read and decypher, then this is the place to be.

Okay. Here's my thing. I just created two sites through the Microsoft Office Live people. That's fine and I'm struggling to build them into something. Nothing functional yet. No need yet. BUT! I created a few email accounts to facilitate business and when I try to bring them into Windows Live Mail, I have no idea how to answer what my Incoming Mail Server and Port are, and the same goes for Login ID and Outgoing Server and Port when I'm in the "creating new email accounts" area of Live Mail.

How do I lift up the skirt and look under to determine these things?

Thanks a lot.

[rich]

Originally Posted by TooheyTom I watched the 5-part series on Windows Live Mail and it was a tremendous help. It's what got me to sign up for your year-long support. I figured if you could hold my hand like that and "show" me instead of my having to read and decypher, then this is the place to be. Okay. Here's my thing. I just created two sites through the Microsoft Office Live people. That's fine and I'm struggling to build them into something. Nothing functional yet. No need yet. BUT! I created a few email accounts to facilitate business and when I try to bring them into Windows Live Mail, I have no idea how to answer what my Incoming Mail Server and Port are, and the same goes for Login ID and Outgoing Server and Port when I'm in the "creating new email accounts" area of Live Mail. How do I lift up the skirt and look under to determine these things? Thanks a lot.

Microsoft Live Mail (any e-mail address that ends in @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @live.com) or Windows Live Domains mail are all accessible in the Windows Live Mail client by setting them up as HTTP-based. When you do this the Windows Live Mail client will auto-detect it as a Live Mail account.

POP3 access however is a different story.

The details on this are here but this is how it works:

POP3 access is not available to any freely available Live Mail account. For each that you want POP3 access you must flip over 20 bucks annually to Microsoft. Once you do this, the server addresses are as follows:

Incoming Secure POP3: pop3.live.com on port 995
Outgoing SMTP: smtp.live.com on port 25

Username is the full e-mail address, password is the password for said account.

REMEMBER: If it's a Live Mail account you DO NOT need to pay for anything if using the Windows Live Mail client. Just set up as HTTP and not POP3 or IMAP. Works like a charm.

[glc]

Depending on your ISP, port 25 may be blocked.

Rich - if the secure POP is on port 995, don't you also have to check SSL?

[rich]

Originally Posted by glc Depending on your ISP, port 25 may be blocked. Rich - if the secure POP is on port 995, don't you also have to check SSL?

Yes that's correct, it must be an SSL connection (similar to the way Gmail does POP3).

[glc]

Not to take this thread off topic, but the reason I asked is I use AT&T DSL, and they use Yahoo mail services. Both my POP and SMTP servers require SSL. The POP is on 995 and the SMTP is on 465.

[rich]

Originally Posted by glc Not to take this thread off topic, but the reason I asked is I use AT&T DSL, and they use Yahoo mail services. Both my POP and SMTP servers require SSL. The POP is on 995 and the SMTP is on 465.

Yes that's identical to the way Gmail does POP/SMTP. All of it must be on secure ports, 995 for incoming and 465 for outgoing with SSL enabled.

Microsoft's Hotmail Plus only has SSL on the incoming POP3 and standard non-secure on the outgoing SMTP on port 25 - but they do require authentication on the outgoing port. It's not open by any means.