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1. #Hotmail email settings in windows live mail password#
2. #Hotmail email settings in windows live mail free#

For example, I have a couple of Hotmail accounts added to the email client – one is a personal account and the other is for my business. I don’t know but I suppose there is no particular limit (as long as it’s a reasonable number). How many Hotmail accounts can be setup on Windows Live Mail? Also, if anything does happen to your online account (it’s hacked, God forbid), you can rest assured that you have a copy on your computer. Thus, you do not need an active internet connection to view your older emails. The main advantage of adding your Hotmail account on Windows Live Mail email client is the storage of email messages on your computer. Thus, you should see the five default Hotmail folders and any other that you have created in the email client – refer image below. Any folders (even the ones that you’ve created) will be downloaded along with their emails. When the Hotmail account has been setup, Windows Live Mail connects to the online server and tries to retrieve all your messages. Note: The email program understands (from your email address) that the account you are setting up is a Hotmail account and will get other information such as mail server address, port number etc. Select Requires a secure connection (SSL). For the incoming server address, enter and change the port number to 993.

For the incoming server, select IMAP from the dropdown. Select Manually configure server settings and click Next.

#Hotmail email settings in windows live mail password#

Technically, Hotmail setup was a single step and not a 3 step process as I mentioned in the beginning! Enter your email address, password and display name for outgoing messages.

#Hotmail email settings in windows live mail free#

Hurray! Setup of your Hotmail account on Windows Live Mail is complete… yes, that was it!įrom the confirmation screen, you can also choose to set this Hotmail account as the default in Windows Live Mail program. Recently Windows Live team enabled FREE POP3 access to all Windows Live Hotmail (Live or Outlook) email users so they can access their email accounts using their favorite email client programs such as Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Postbox, etc or using apps in their mobile phones. Leave the “Manually configure server settings for e-mail account” alone – make sure there is no checkmark in this box! Now move to the next screen. The display name can be your own name or anything you want. In the pop-up window, enter your Hotmail email address (the complete address), the password of your account and a display name.