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Open in new tab Configure Windows Live Mail IMAP or POP
Account
For messages, users should set up an account within Windows Live Mail using either IMAP or POP3.
NOTE: If you have enabled Windows Live Mail to keep messages on the server, you will be able to access your messages and
folders from any computer via the SmarterMail Web interface or your mobile device.
Follow these steps to create an Windows Live Mail POP3 or IMAP account:
1. The first time you open Windows Live Mail (WLM) after installation, the new email account setup wizard should open
automatically, ready to collect and test your email account information.
Otherwise, if you have already previously ran WLM, then press the Alt key on your keyboard to show the menus, and then
select the Tools menu. Finally, choose “Accounts” and click on the “Add” button. This will open the same wizard
mentioned above.
2. Enter your full email address in the first field (“E-mail address”).
3. With the second field (“Password”), Windows Live Mail requests your email account’s password to be able to connect to
your mail server. Windows Live Mail will by default remember your email account password.
4. The last field, “Display Name”, determines what Windows Live Mail will show as sender’s name to people you email from
it.
5. The “Manually configure server settings for e-mail account” checkbox is unchecked by default, and Windows Live Mail will
attempt to configure your email account automatically. If you want to use IMAP, you can proceed with this option.
Otherwise, proceed onto the next step.
If you chose to manually configure your server settings, or if Windows Live Mail was unable to automatically detect them,
you will be presented with a second screen to collect your mail server information and authentication method:
6.
1. The top portion of Windows Live Mail’s email account setup screen, “Incoming Server Information”, collects the
information needed to receive emails from your mail server. Start by choosing whether your email account is
POP3 or IMAP (description listed at the beginning of this article)
2. For the incoming server information, enter the following:
mail.mightyhost.ca
3. For the outgoing server information, enter the following:
mail.mightyhost.ca
The outgoing mail server port should read 10587
Enable “Requires authentication”
4. The remaining details can be left as is.
7. Click the Next button and that will finalize the process.