How To Set Up A New Windows Live Mail Account

Windows alive mail which comes every bit a part of Windows live suite, is an fantabulous e-mail client which can be used to send and receive emails from your Gmail and Google Apps accounts from desktop. If yous are having problems receiving emails in Windows live post, here is a complete step by pace tutorial which will help.

The advantage of Windows alive post over Microsoft Outlook is the uncomplicated interface and the clear focus. I have been using Microsoft Outlook for some time now, but after trying Windows Live mail (wave four), I think I will switch over.

Without further ado, hither are the steps to configure Windows live mail client:

Configure Windows Live Mail service For Gmail

1. Outset login to your Gmail account, go to settings and select the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. Select "Enable POP for all mail service" and enable IMAP access, as shown in the following image:

Configure Windows Live Mail For Gmail account

Check the radio button "Enable IMAP" and click "Save changes" at the lesser of the page.

2. Commencement the Windows alive postal service client. If this is the first time you are going to use Windows Live Mail for receiving electronic mail from Gmail at your desktop, you will come across the post-obit window:

Configure Windows Alive Mail For E-mail business relationship

If you are already using Windows Alive mail for your other email accounts e.g Yahoo or Hotmail, you can click "Add an Email account" from the left pane of the program window.

3. Enter your Gmail business relationship credentials in the corresponding fields. Make sure to enter the complete address as username@gmail.com and not username merely.

Setup Windows Live Post for Gmail Business relationship

Besides check the selection "Manually configure server settings for email account" and click "Next"

4. In the next Window, cull the incoming postal service server type equally "imap" and enter the incoming mail service server address as imap.gmail.com. And then select the Approachable mail server field and enter the address of outgoing mail server as smtp.gmail.com

Configure Incoming and Outgoing Mail server ports in Windows live

Make sure yous select the right port numbers for the incoming and approachable mail service servers of Gmail. The port numbers of incoming post server should be 993 while that of outgoing mail server would be 465.

v. Select the check box "This connection requires a secure connexion (SSL)" and click "Adjacent"

6. Y'all are all done. Hit "F5" or the sync button at the right meridian and Windows live will kickoff fetching all the emails from your Gmail account and you lot can read or reply to them from desktop.

Completed Setup for Windows Live Mail

You tin can check whether the mail fetching works properly by sending a test bulletin from another electronic mail account of yours or enquire 1 of your friends to ship a demo email message. (related tip: how to search old emails in Gmail)

Configure Windows Live Postal service For Google Apps Accounts

For Google Apps, the setup is slightly unlike. Hither are the steps:

1. Login to your Google Apps email, go to settings and choose the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. Select "Enable Pop for all mail" and enable IMAP, every bit shown:

Configure Windows Live Mail for Google Apps Accounts

Configure Windows Alive Mail for Google Apps Accounts

Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.

2. Open Windows live mail client and click "Add an Email account" from the left sidebar. Then enter your Google Apps email credentials equally shown below:

Configure Windows Live Mail For Google Apps Accounts

Configure Windows Live Postal service For Google Apps Accounts

Also select the checkbox "Manually configure server settings for email account" and so click "Next"

three. In the next step, choose incoming mail server as imap.gmail.com and the outgoing mail server as smtp.gmail.com. Choose your email username as yous@youdomain.com and enter the correct password

Google Apps IMAP Settings for Windows Live mail

The port numbers for outgoing mail server and incoming mail service server are 465 and 993 respectively.

iv. Hit "Save" changes and the configuration part is over.

Now you tin sync all your email messages to desktop by hitting the "Sync" button placed at the right top of the Windows live mail window. Doing this will download all the labels, folders and archived messages kept in your Gmail or Google Apps account inside Windows alive mail.

We highly recommend using Microsoft Outlook equally an alternative desktop e-mail customer. Please check out our earlier tutorials on configuring Outlook 2007 and configuring Outlook 2010 for Gmail and Google Apps accounts.

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one. How to transport scheduled emails from Gmail
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3. How to read emails as RSS feed to save time