Having trouble setting up email account in Vista/Outlook

[Luke Calvert]

In Control Panel - Mail - Mail Setup - email accounts, I type in the required
details to set up an existing mail and it doesn't recognise it when it tries
to read the server (red cross instead of tick). I have tried a Yahoo account,
Windows Live account and another one, and tried using "unencrypted" and since
my knowledge of Vista is fairly basic, I am not sure about doing it manually.
I can't receive and send emails in Outlook 2007 because of this. What would
be the problem?

 

[Gordon]

In Control Panel - Mail - Mail Setup - email accounts, I type in the
required
details to set up an existing mail and it doesn't recognise it when it
tries
to read the server (red cross instead of tick). I have tried a Yahoo
account,

Well the Yahoo account won't work unless you either pay for your account, or
have a Yahoo.co.uk or Yahoo.fr account...

Windows Live account and another one, and tried using "unencrypted" and
since
my knowledge of Vista is fairly basic, I am not sure about doing it
manually.
I can't receive and send emails in Outlook 2007 because of this. What
would
be the problem?

Post the error message(s) in full, as the answer is usually in there
somewhere...

 

[Guest]

In Control Panel - Mail - Mail Setup - email accounts, I type in the
required
details to set up an existing mail and it doesn't recognise it when it
tries
to read the server (red cross instead of tick). I have tried a Yahoo
account,
Windows Live account and another one, and tried using "unencrypted" and
since
my knowledge of Vista is fairly basic, I am not sure about doing it
manually.
I can't receive and send emails in Outlook 2007 because of this. What
would
be the problem?

You'll get more help for Outlook if you ask in a newsgroup meant for
Outlook,
such as:

microsoft.public.outlook.general

Mention which version of Outlook you're using, and that you're using it
under Vista, in case this makes a difference what answer you should get.

 

[DL]

Some of the 'free' email services are not available in Outlook, eg Hotmail
requires the premium hotmail service.
When you test the account settings in OL you will receive err.msgs - post
these when you repost to an outlook group

 

[Gordon]

Some of the 'free' email services are not available in Outlook, eg Hotmail
requires the premium hotmail service.

Not quite true - if you convert your free Hotmail account to a Live Hotmail
account and use the Outlook Connector you can use Outlook for free
Hotmail...

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Free Hotmail will work in Outlook (2003 or 2007) if you get the
Outlook Connector:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx

 

[DL]

yes, I forgot that one

Free Hotmail will work in Outlook (2003 or 2007) if you get the
Outlook Connector:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx

 

[Gordon]

Free Hotmail will work in Outlook (2003 or 2007) if you get the
Outlook Connector:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx

But only if you convert your Hotmail account to a Live Hotmail account...

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't keep up very much with the Hotmail arena, but at some
point Microsoft was going to make that conversion unilaterally.
I assumed that had already happened.

 

[Gordon]

I don't keep up very much with the Hotmail arena, but at some
point Microsoft was going to make that conversion unilaterally.
I assumed that had already happened.

You may well be right.....I know I had to manually convert mine a short
while (several months?) ago...