On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:06:01 -0800, ingwahang wrote:
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> i tried adding my yahoo mail and gmail accounts into windows live mail. but
> sadly they don't work. am i missing something because i had added them
> follwing the procedures as stated. or they don't work?
Both Yahoo! and Gmail work fine in my copy of Windows Live Mail.
Yahoo! Mail server access requires either a paid Yahoo! Mail Plus account
(comes with my ISP), or one of the nation CC TLD Yahoo! accounts
('yahoo.co.uk', 'yahoo.com.au', 'yahoo.es', 'yahoo.co.jp', etc.). In my
caes, my 'pacbell.net' account can use Yahoo! Mail POP3/SMTP servers, and I
also have a 'yahoo.com.au' and a 'yahoo.co.jp' account.
Gmail server access requires configuration at the Gmail site to prepare the
account for use with mail clients. After that has been done, you have to
configure the outgoing server using port 465 with SSL (Windows Live Mail
fails when trying to use port 587 with STARTTLS; a bug carried over from MS
Outlook Express where STARTTLS only works with port 25; but Gmail doesn't
use port 25 for outgoing email). Incoming should be either port 995 with SSL
(for POP3 access), or port 993 with SSL (for IMAP access).
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Norman
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