OPENING AN WINDOW MAIL ACCOUNT

[BECKY ~ LOO]

I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH SENDING EMAILS THROUGH WINDOWS MAIL, AND OPENING AN
ACCOUNT. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANY OF THE POP3 AND ALL THE THINGS IT ASKES. I
WENT TO YAHOO ANSWERS AND DID ALL IT ASKED ME TO DO. BUT WHEN IT ASKED ME TO
SIGN IN USERNAME AND PASSWORD I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO PUT IN. I REALLY NEED
HELP. I JUST GOT MY NEW HP VISTA COMPUTER YESTERDAY AND I AM REALLY WAITING
TO USE IT.THANKS

 

[Dave]

You don't "open an account"... you have to configure Windows Mail to access
an existing POP or IMAP email account.

Your email account provider should have the correct server names and
settings on their website.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH SENDING EMAILS THROUGH WINDOWS MAIL, AND OPENING
AN
ACCOUNT. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANY OF THE POP3 AND ALL THE THINGS IT ASKES.
I
WENT TO YAHOO ANSWERS AND DID ALL IT ASKED ME TO DO. BUT WHEN IT ASKED ME
TO
SIGN IN USERNAME AND PASSWORD I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO PUT IN. I REALLY NEED
HELP. I JUST GOT MY NEW HP VISTA COMPUTER YESTERDAY AND I AM REALLY
WAITING
TO USE IT.THANKS

Becky, this information comes from the people who you already have an email
account with. They will be able to tell you the server names (POP is
incoming and SMTP is outgoing) and the username and password are for that
email account.

You don't open an email account with Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail, or
Outlook, or Outlook Express, etc. These are mail "clients", and need you
to have opened an account on a mail *server*. Your ISP runs mail servers,
and Hotmail and Yahoo also run mail servers.

Note that some web-mail systems just won't work with Windows Mail. The
ordinary Yahoo mail is one of them. If that's what you have, you can use a
program called "YPOPS" that will help.

HTH
-pk