Windows Live Mail 2009
Instructions
for Changing the Settings re:
-- Outgoing Mail Server Port
Number
-- Password Authentication
-- Leaving Copies of Mail on
the Server
-- Secure Email
1) Double click on the Windows
Live Mail icon on your desktop or on the START menu
2) Click on TOOLS at the top of the page
In the dropdown menu click on Accounts...
3) Double click your email address
4) A "Properties" window opens
5) On the GENERAL Tab fill in:
- The name of your
account i.e. Mcn (testy)
- Name: i.e. Testy
- E-mail address: i.e.
testy@mcn.org
- Check "Include this account when
receiving mail or synchronizing"
- Then click on the PROPERTIES
button to the right
- Click on the APPLY Button
6) Click on the SERVERS Tab
My incoming mail server is a
POP3 server.
Incoming mail (POP3) : mail.mcn.org
Outgoing mail (SMTP): mail.mcn.org
Email username: first word of
your email address i.e. for testy@mcn.org, "testy"
is the user name.
Password: your
MCN password
Check Log on using clear text
authentication
7) At the bottom of the screen CHECK the box
before "My server requires authentication"
8) Click on the SETTINGS
button
An Outgoing Mail Server window will
open
9) Click dot next to "Use same
settings as my incoming
mail server"
10) Click
on the "OK" button in
that window.
11) Click on the Advanced tab
Outgoing
mail (SMTP) 587
Check "this server requires a
secure connection (SSL)"
Incoming
mail (POP3) 995
12) To change the settings for Holding
Mail on the Server:
At the bottom of the Advanced tab
window under "Delivery"
Check "Leave a copy of messages on server"
Check "Remove from server after" and
type in # of day(s)
(Best to keep it under 14 days)
*** If you DON'T want to hold copies of your mail on the
server then DON'T check "Leave a copy of messages on server"
Click the Apply button at the bottom right of the window
Click the OK button
below
You're all done now. Great job!
Password
Authentication-SMTP Server Port Main Page
or MCN Home Page