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Windows Live Mail - Set up Hotmail, Yahoo!, GMail, AOL e-mail

Set up Free Hotmail, Yahoo!, GMail, AOL e-mail accounts in Windows Live Mail Published by Abhishek Ghosh 08-04-2010 Windows Live Mail - Set up Hotmail, Yahoo!, GMail, AOL e-mail

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Set up Free Hotmail, Yahoo!, GMail, AOL e-mail accounts in Windows Live Mail
You can use your Windows Live Mail, which you can download free of cost from the official website, to check all your free accounts, without the need to open the page and login individually. However, among these free email accounts, you can not reply from Free Yahoo! mail, you have to open the browser, go to the mail site (http://mail.yahoo.com/) , sign in, open inbox and reply (or compose).

Step 1
You have to download Windows Live Mail First; if you have already installed Windows Live Essentials (including Windows Live Mail; just omit this step and follow Step 2. To download Windows Live Essentials (you can choose to install other Windows Live programs, other than Live Mail) Click here to visit the official Site. To download Windows Live Mail only, Click here to visit the official site.

Abhishek Ghosh
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Step 2
Click the Start button > Click All Programs > Click Windows Live > Click to open Windows Live Mail ; like this:
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If you are running for the first time, You will get a pop up window for the settings; otherwise click blue colored "Add e-mail account" link on the left sided pane of Windows Live Mail. Now, we will learn about specific e-mail service provider's settings. Incoming and outgoing server settings for Hotmail: Hotmail, obviously have the needed default settings included, so, you need not to work much! If you are running for the first time, You will get a pop up window for the settings:
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otherwise if you already have an e-mail account added there, click the blue colored "Add e-mail account" link on the left sided pane of Windows Live Mail, which will bring a windows like this:

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Fill up the "E-mail address", "Password", "Display Name" field; dont check the "Manually configure server settings for e-mail account" for hotmail. After filling up these three fields, Click next. Done for your Hotmail account. There after, you will see, this button on the top pane:

Click Download to complete the whole process. Now, you can receive, send, delete, or mark as junk from your Hotmail account. Here is an example of a suspected (by Live mail) e-mail:
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Obviously, you need your own judgement to decide whether its a junk/spam or Live Mail is just suspecting without any chance of threat from the mail sender! Infact, this screenshot was of an e-mail from Microsoft answers, no doubt it is safe. Live mail makes assumption depending on frequency of receipt from the same email address, the wordings etc. You will get this alert for Newsletters, forum updates as the body, subheaders (or even the headers) are same, always. This is an example of suspected "potential threat" , decided by Live Mail:

It is not the fact, that Ryan Deiss sent me an malware or virus, anyhow, Live Mail suspected it. Its always good to be over suspicious than under (I am saying about e-mail). Important note: If you delete any e-mail from "deleted items" folder, it will be erased from your hotmail email account too. It gets synchronised with your Live Mail. So, be careful! It will not happen with other e-mail accounts. If you have formatted your PC, re-installed Live mail and setting up again, you need no backup for Hotmail account and all the deleted and junk mail does not appear again, after once you have deleted them. For other E-mail accounts, all the e-mails remain in the server (including the junks, deleted e-mails); so, you need to delete them again. To avoid this, manually delete the junks and e-mails those you dont need from your free e-mail inbox opened in the browser, say, once a month. Incoming and outgoing server settings for Free Yahoo! Mail: As I have said before, you can only receive the e-mails only from free Yahoo! mail, but can not reply from

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Live mail. But, in case of Paid Yahoo! Mail, you can do, just like free Hotmail account. Now, Click the blue colored "Add e-mail account" link in the left sided pane of your Windows Live Mail:

It will bring the pop up window as before:

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Fill up the "E-mail address", "Password", "Display Name" field; check the "Manually configure server settings for e-mail account" :
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After filling up these three fields, Click next :

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This is where you have to change the settings for the e-mail accounts, other than Hotmail.

For Free Yahoo! e-mail, you will have to change: Incoming Server : POP3 (From drop down menu). Incoming Server (Address): pop.mail.yahoo.com Port: 995 Check the "This server requires Secure connection". Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port: 465 Check the "This server requires Secure connection" and "My outgoing server requires authentication". Click next and its done. Incoming and outgoing server settings for Yahoo! Mail Plus: For paid Yahoo! e-mail (Yahoo! Mail Plus), you will have to change: Incoming Server : POP3 (From drop down menu). Incoming Server (Address): plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com Port: 995 Check the "This server requires Secure connection". Outgoing Mail Server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port: 465 Check the "This server requires Secure connection" and "My outgoing server requires authentication". Click next and its done. Incoming and outgoing server settings GMail: The GMail service offers email access for retrieving and sending emails through your Gmail account. Incoming Server : POP3 (From drop down menu). Incoming Server (Address): pop.gmail.com Port: 995 Check the "This server requires Secure connection". Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com Port: 465 Check the "This server requires Secure connection" and "My outgoing server requires authentication". Incoming and outgoing server settings AOL: Windows Live mail can configure automatically when you type AOL email address and click next, however, you can change them, if needed: AOL Incoming Mail Server (IMAP) - imap.aol.com Port: 143 AOL Outgoing Mail Server - smtp.aol.com

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Additional Note: 1) Same settings can be used for Windows Mobile 2) Same settings can be used for Nokia Symbian OS running mobiles (6600 onwards, N series, E series). Go to Messaging > MailBox> Define your email settings there. it works nice on the go and you dont have to pay text messaging charge; just the GPRS access cost will be incurred.

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Dinesh
Nice work Abhishek.
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Bare Foot Kid

Hello Abhishek, nicely done mate.

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Abhishek Ghosh
Thank you very much BFD and Dinesh
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LADYPINKtomato1
Windows 7 - 32 bit and 64 bit Windows XP Sp3 -32 bit 2,182 posts So. Ar.

Nokian this is a very nice helpful tutorial. I wasn't aware of some of these features . I've used Instant Messenger for years, and Windows Live Mail ( since it's been out). Thanks

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Abhishek Ghosh
Quote: Originally Posted by LADYPINKtomato1

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit 981 posts

Nokian this is a very nice helpful tutorial. I wasn't aware of some of these features . I've used Instant Messenger for years, and Windows Live Mail ( since it's been out). Thanks In next tutorial on Windows Live Mail I will make you more happy I guess. Coming soon Thank you so much.

My System Specs 08-04-2010 #6

A Guy
Good tute Abhishek. I don't use any PC based mail programs, but I know this will come in handy. A Guy
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Abhishek Ghosh
Thanks mate, glad you liked it
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My System Specs 10-28-2010 #8

gogreen
Abhishek: Excellent tutorial.
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 297 posts Florida

May I make a suggestion? I suggest you change the information for free Yahoo Mail accounts. With free accounts, you cannot download or read mail in WLM. Nice work! Thanks.

My System Specs 10-29-2010 #9

Abhishek Ghosh
@gogreen: Thanks for the appreciation.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit 981 posts

I can not show you the email ID, its that which is used to signup for this forum. Its working nicely: The reason you cant set it up is probably your ISP has been requested by Yahoo! not to allow access from free accounts using e-mail clients. There is a way to circumvent it too by modifying something. I can not tell it here or anywhere, most probably that amounts to hacking Note that, I am using the method described in the tutorial; here is the screenshoot: (Admin of SF can tell its free account; as they know the full email address.)
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