Guide to adding an email account to Windows Live Mail
Interactive Guide
To view an interactive guide to setting up Windows Live Mail, please click here.
Set up Quick Guide
1. Open Windows Live Mail.
2. Click the Tools menu, and select Accounts...
3. Click on the "Add..." button.
4. Make sure that "Email Account" is highlighted and then click next.
5. On the Auto Account Setup window check the Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.
6. Enter your email address, password and display name... then click next.
7. Enter your Incoming mail server, Logon ID (username) and outgoing mail server.
8. Change the outgoing mail server port from 25 to 587
9. Tick the box that says "My outgoing server requires authentication" then click next and then finish.
