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Email Accounts - Windows Live Mail

Adding an email account to Windows Live Mail

Open the application Windows Live Mail (Start > All Programs)

  1. Select the menu tab Accounts and click the Email icon
  2. Add your Email address and Password
  3. Email: name@yourdomain.com
  4. Password: Use your new password
  5. Enter your Display name (for the From field, when sending emails)
  6. Check Manually configure server settings
  7. Click Next
  8. Incoming server information
  9. Server type: POP
  10. Server address: mail.yourdomain.com
  11. Logon user name: Enter your email address (name@yourdomain.com)
  12. Outgoing server information
  13. Server address: mail.yourdomain.com
  14. Port: 587
  15. Check Requires authentication
  16. Click Next
  17. Click Finish

Additional Settings

These settings are important, as they prevent your account from exceeding its limits.

Removing emails from the email server

  1. Within the application Windows Live Mail
  2. Select the menu tab Accounts and click the Properties icon
  3. Select the Advanced tab
  4. Under Delivery, check Remove from server after [5] day(s)
  5. You can choose how many days you’d like to wait after receiving an email before removing it from the mail server, but five days is typical.

Checking for new emails – automatically

  1. Select the Windows Live Mail tab – to the left of the Home tab
  2. Hover over Options and select Mail…
  3. Within the General tab, under Send / Receive Messages, ensure Check for new messages every [x] minute(s) is set to 5 (or more) minutes
  4. We recommend setting this option to 5

Add an HTML signature

  1. Select the Windows Live Mail tab – to the left of the Home tab
  2. Hover over Options and select Mail…
  3. Within the Signatures tab, under Signature, add a New signature, or select an already existing one
  4. In the Edit Signature section, select File as your signature type
  5. Click Browse… and select the HTML file that you downloaded when creating your custom signature – Ensure that HTML Files (*.htm,*.html) is selected in the dropdown menu to the right of the File name field, otherwise your file won’t appear