I want to create a PC based email account

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giuseppe

I have a laptop with Windows vista.
I want to create a PC based email account but all the time I'm asked about
my server or Internet service provider.
I have neither of them so what I can do?
Can you help me.
Regards.
 
giuseppe said:
I have a laptop with Windows vista.
I want to create a PC based email account but all the time I'm asked about
my server or Internet service provider.
I have neither of them so what I can do?
Can you help me.
Regards.
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Well, you are provided internet service by someone because you have
connected to a newsreader to get here. So, who was that ISP? The mail
service provider is usually the same company or you may contract with
another service. What would you like to do?
Bob F.
 
giuseppe said:
I have a laptop with Windows vista.
I want to create a PC based email account but all the time I'm asked about
my server or Internet service provider.
I have neither of them so what I can do?
Can you help me.
Regards.
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If you have no internet provider, the mail won't go in or out. Most
internet providers have an email server they let you use.

If you have an internet provider but they don't have an email server,
look around for the free email accounts that don't use port 25.
For example Gmail:

http://email.about.com/od/windowsmailtips/qt/et_get_gmail.htm

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273

<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/setting-up-gmail-imap-support-for-windows-vista-mail/>

Note that these instructions cover both the IMAP and the POP
methods of connecting. Choose one of them, and don't get them
mixed up.
 
giuseppe said:
I have a laptop with Windows vista.
I want to create a PC based email account but all the time I'm asked about
my server or Internet service provider.
I have neither of them so what I can do?
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Easy. Get one. There are various free email services that aren't tied to
ISPs, such as Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. Not all of these free services work
with Windows Mail, though.

Google Mail, gmail, is also free, and can work with Windows Mail, but
last I looked you needed to already have an email account elsewhere -
someone else has to send you an invitation.

Email accounts also come with every internet service plan, but there is a
problem that the outgoing server settings often only work when you're
connected to that network. google mail and other services that don't send
mail via Port 25 do not have this problem.

HTH
-pk
 
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