Setting up windows email which servers do i use

[andy kerr]

Setting up windows email which servers do i use

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Who is your email service provider? Or to ask that question another way,
what is the part of your email address after the @ symbol?
Your email provider will typically have a web page that shows how to
set up an email program. If you need more help, tell us the name of
your email service provider.

 

[Dave]

It depends....

If you have the free Hotmail account in the US, you'll have to use the newer
WIndows Live Mail program.
Hotmail/Live Plus account..
http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!CC9301187A51FE33!44348.entry

If you have the Plus account, or live where MS has opened their POP3
servers, then
http://news.softpedia.com/news/POP3...ve-Hotmail-with-and-Email-Client-102084.shtml


For Gmail, do you use POP3 or IMAP?
Gmail POP3....
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86382

Gmail IMAP....
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77696&topic=12920

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

In addition to Dave's response:
US-based free Hotmail accounts are scheduled to get free POP
access next month.

 

[trying to reply to jobs that are posted]

ok so far you have helped me the most im trying to reply to an ad on
craigslist and every time i try to send the email a box comes up and says
tasks and another tab errors then with codes and alot of writting it says
make sure the server name (e-mail address removed) which is my email addy is
correct do you know anything about how i can fix this situation?? I can not
reply to any job posting on craigslist

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Is that Yahoo email address your only email address? US-based free
Yahoo accounts have webmail access only, no POP access.
Windows Mail handles POP mail but not Yahoo webmail.
There are two Yahoo solutions:

1. How did you access Yahoo mail before? If you are happy with
webmail via your browser, you can continue to use that. There is a
new fix for setting Yahoo webmail as the default mail service in Vista:
http://www.pchell.com/support/yahoomail.shtml
Use the second method (YAttach) shown on that page.

2. Pay Yahoo to get their premium "Mail Plus" service:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/overview/index.html
and use the special settings for that service:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/pop/pop-14.html

If you are OK with using a non-Yahoo email address, you have three other
solutions that will work with Windows Mail:
* Use the email address assigned to you by your ISP.
* Get a free Gmail account.
* Get a free Hotmail/Live account.

Let us know if you need more help with any of these solutions.