How to setup Windows Live Mail to check your email account
Article ID: 2832 Published: 22 Oct 2014 Updated: 30 May 2018 Authored by: Crazy Domains Support
Windows 7 comes with a free email client, Windows Live Mail, that you can use to send and receive emails.
Make sure you have created your email address in the Hosting Manager or Plesk for Windows Hosting, before setting it up in Windows Live Mail.
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If you have, then continue below.
Setting up Windows Live Mail
These are the steps you need to follow to set up Windows Live Mail to check your Email:
| Step 1. | Open Windows Live Mail on your computer. | ||||||||||||
| Step 2. | If first time setting up mail a page will ask you Accept the agreement, here you need to click Accept. Skip to step 4.
If this is not the first time continue with step 3. |
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| Step 3. | On the Live screen click on Tools and select Account, you will be prompted with another screen where you need to select Add, click on Email Account and then click Next. | ||||||||||||
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| Step 4. | On this screen fill in the fields. | ||||||||||||
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| Step 5. | Select Manually configure server settings and then click Next. | ||||||||||||
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| Step 6. | Fill in the server settings. | ||||||||||||
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| Step 7. | Click Next. | ||||||||||||
| Step 8. | Click Finished. |
Congratulations, you have added your email account to Windows Live Mail. You should now be able to use it to check your email.
