Vista - eMail Defaults Once and For... Cryn Out Loud

In my feeble attempts to set my Windows 'Live' account as my default email
and/or Windows 'Mail' I continually receive the following error message. I
havn't a clue as to what POPs or SMTP settings I have. I have also seen a
message stating web based email is no longer supported by whatever?.
Please someone help me with clear direction? It's funny how I had to enter
my 'Live' password to gain access to and post this question here. And yes I
have seen dozens of queries referring to either mail services but all that
has become a turkey shoot. Frankly I prefer 'Live' as I've had an (.)msn.com
address for years. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 2006 on a Gateway
MT6821. If any of that makes a dif.

Please?

The host 'smtp' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly.
Subject 'You have received photos from Adobe Photoshop Album Starter
Edition 3.2', Account: 'pop3', Server: 'smtp', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25,
Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

The host 'pop3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly.
Account: 'pop3', Server: 'pop3', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL):
No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D
--
Please?
Scott (sew3fan@xxxxxx)

Hi Scott,

Windows Mail does not support the free Hotmail (Windows Live ID) email accounts. Since you have a Hotmail (Live) account, you might consider using Windows Live Mail (WLM) instead of Windows Mail. It supports Pop3, IMAP, HTTP website (EX: Hotmail) email, and is a lot more stable. Plus, WLM will minimize to a tray bar icon and has a separate Inbox for each account. WLM will automatically import Windows Mail messages, accounts, and settings into it. Contacts will have to be manually imported from within WLM. (Tools, Contacts, File, Import, Address book for current Windows User.) To see the Menu bar, press ALT+M and check "Show all menus".

You can read about the features of WLM here:

Windows Live Mail


You can get Windows Live Mail from here:

Windows Live Suite Downloads

Shawn

http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

You want Hotmail or Live hotmail as your default email.
POP3 and SMTP are incoming and ougoing mail servers.

Read the above link for your solution.



"swhite1" wrote:

"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:30BE313A-7A23-4785-A7A9-B968C9B008F8@xxxxxxThose are format protocol types, not servers.... The ISP has the 'server' info.

I know the ISPs have the server info.

I am telling them what it means in laymans terms.

"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote:

"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote in message...
Perhaps you're too 'layman' for your own good.

What you did was confuse an issue. Incoming and outgoing
mailservers are assigned by the ISP. They rarely have ANY
THING to do with the PROTOCOL used by the server unless
it's the rare ocassion where the protocol is used as a part of
that address.


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David B. Morgan (MAMS)
Morgan Audio Media Service
http://www.m-a-m-s DOT com
Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901
_____________________________
http://www.januarysound.com

Get a life, cockhead!

"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote:

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