Thread: Setting up Windows Mail in Vista

Windows Vista launched a substitute for Outlook Express known as Windows Mail. Windows Mail permits you to send and receive messages from many email accounts after you organize each one. It works with several internet service providers (ISPs). Running many email accounts is simple as every account in Windows Mail is managed in its own folder. You can check for messages from all your email accounts.
When you initially start Windows Mail it will start new email account wizard and it will ask you for is your display name. This can be anything you want it to be and what will displayed on your outgoing messages. It is selected by you and not your ISP.



Then enter email address for your account. This should be setup by your ISP or else you are unable to verify your email until you contain a valid email address.



Then setup email servers utilized for your account. This information will differ based on what kind of servers your ISP utilizes. You must select right server types for incoming and outgoing email and enter particular information for those servers in fields.

It supports three kinds of email servers; POP3, SMTP and IMAP. You want to know what kind of server your email provider utilizes earlier than setting up Windows Mail.
Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) servers are utilized by many ISPs. They carry incoming email messages until you verify email, at point when they are moved to PC. Messages are usually removed from server when you check email.

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) servers allow you work with email messages without downloading them to PC first. You can preview, delete, and arrange messages straight on email server. Copies are stored on server until you remove them. It is generally utilized for business email accounts.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers control sending of your email messages to Internet. It controls only outgoing email, and is utilized in combination with a POP3 or IMAP incoming email server.

Windows Mail does not support HTTP servers utilized by Hotmail and other web dependent email services.



Few ISPs need verification for outgoing email so you can check the box that says Outgoing server requires authentication and fill in necessary information. Several times you can check the box that says Use same settings as my incoming mail server and it will do the trick.



Lastly enter your email username and password. The username is generally first part of your email address before @ symbol. Few ISPs need complete email address as username. If you check the box that says Remember password then you won’t have to enter it every time check email.



Then you get congratulations screen showing that you have effectively setup Windows Mail and it will request you if you would like to download your mail now.

Windows Mail permits you to perform more than send email. It also permits you to read newsgroups which are Internet discussion forums where groups of users with common interests collect to talk about things like movies, games, and politics and so on.