Windows Live Mail (IMAP & SMTP over SSL)

To configure Windows Live Mail to send and receive email using our servers using IMAP and SMTP over SSL/TLS, please follow the steps below. Please replace:

[email protected] with your email address example.com with your domain name your_server.com with your server's host name (you can find your server's host name listed in the upper left corner of your Control Panel)

1. Open Windows Live Mail.

2. Choose "Tools" -> "Accounts".



3. Click on "Add".



4. Select "E-mail Account".

Click on "Next".



5. Enter your e-mail address [email protected] in the "E-mail address" field.
In the "Password" field you need to enter the current password for this particular mailbox.
In the "Display Name" field you should enter the name which you would like to appear on the messages you send.
Select "Manually configure server settings or additional server types".

Click on the "Next" button.



6. Set the type of the incoming mail server to IMAP.
For incoming and outgoing mail servers you should use mail.your_server.com
"This server requires a secure connection (SSL)" options under "Incoming server" and "Outgoing server" need to be checked.
Enter your e-mail address [email protected] in the "Login ID" field.
Set the "Outgoing server" port to 587.
Mark the "Outgoing server requires authentication" option.

Click on the "Next" button.



7. Click on "Finish".



8. Select the account you have just created and click on "Properties".



9. Click on the "IMAP" tab and enter the following value in the "Root folder path" text area: INBOX
Be sure to enter this value in capital letters.

Enter "Sent" in the "Sent Items path:" field, "Drafts" in the "Drafts path:" field, "Trash" in the "Deleted Items path:" field and "Junk Mail" in the "Junk path:" field.

Click on "OK".



10. Click on "Close".