Windows Live Mail
1. Open up Windows Live Mail (double-click icon on desktop or click icon in start menu).
2. Once the email application has opened, please use your mouse to left click (once) on the ‘Windows Live Mail’ button.
3. A) Once the menu has been opened you will be provided a few choices. Please click the button
labeled as ‘Options’
B) To the right of ‘Options’ click the button labeled as “@ Email accounts…”
4. Once you have clicked the email accounts button, a new window called “Accounts” will open up, please click the ‘Add’ button to start adding a new email account.
5. Once you have clicked the ‘Add’ button a new window shows up.
A) Left click once on the words “Email Account” to highlight/select it.
b) Left click once on the "Next "botton.
6. Once you have clicked the ‘Next’ button a new window shows up.
A) Enter in your email address in the “Email address:” field.
B) Enter in your emails password in the “Pasword:” field.
C) Put a tickmark in the “Remember this password” box if you don’t want to re-enter your login information when you check your email
D) Enter in your First Name and Last Name in the “Display name for your sent messages:” field.
E) Put a tickmark in the “Manually configure server settings” box, this _must_ be done to setup the account properly.
F) Hit the next button.
7. On this screen you are presented with a few options, the details in this step are for POP3 Connections; POP3 downloads a copy of the email to your computer and then deletes it from the server (only accessible on your computer after download from server). Details are as follows:
INCOMING SERVER INFORMATION
- Server Type = POP
- Server Address = mail.abccomm.com
- Server Address Port = 995
- Authenticate using = Clear Text
- Logon user name = Email Address (i.e. someone@netbistro.com)
OUTGOING SERVER INFORMATION
- Server Address = smtp.abccomm.com
- Server Address Port = 587
- Put a check mark in the box labaled 'Requires a secure connection (SSL)' under outgoing server
- Check mark in box labeled “Requires authentication”
8. The details in this step are for IMAP email settings. You may skip this step if you set it up as a POP account. IMAP is a ‘mirror’ image of the information on the server, instead of copying it locally to your computer and that computer being the only one with access to it; it will leave the emails on the server so that multiple devices can access/delete/move the emails as needed.
INCOMING SERVER INFORMATION
- Server Type = IMAP
- Server Address = mail.abccomm.com
- Server Address Port = 993
- Tick mark in box labeled “Requires a secure connection (SSL)”
- Authenticate using = Clear Text
- Logon user name = Email Address (i.e. someone@netbistro.com)
OUTGOING SERVER INFORMATION
- Server Address = smtp.abccomm.com
- Server Address Port = 587
- Put a check mark in the box labaled 'Requires a secure connection (SSL)' under outgoing server
- Check mark in box labeled “Requires authentication”
9. Setup has been completed! You may now click the finish button!
