Live Mail and IMAP

Hello,

Please be informed that with the current design of Windows Live Mail, we don't have the option to configure your account using IMAP feature.

If you want to incorporate your Hotmail/Outlook.com account using your preferred Mail client, here’s the information below to configure your account.

• POP3 Server: pop3.live.com (port 995) 
• SMTP Server: smtp.live.com (port 25)  

Note: If port 25 has been blocked in your network or by your ISP, you can set SMTP port to 587 with TLS or SSL Encryption depending on the client in use.

For more information, kindly visit the Solution Article below:

Send and receive Hotmail from an email app

Thanks!

Thank you for your message.

You say that "Please be informed that with the current design of Windows Live Mail, we don't have the option to configure your account using IMAP feature", but using the Live Mail GUI it looks I can configure my account using the IMAP feature: am I missing any relevant point?

Anyway, where is the "current design of Windows Live Mail" documented, so that I can avoid wasting time about unavailable or unsupported features?

Regards

marius

Hi,

Please be informed that the information provided by the previous moderator applies to Microsoft account users. If you will set up third party account in your Windows Live Mail, IMAP settings can be configured. You may refer to the article below for your reference.

Add 3rd party account in Windows Live Mail

In addition, please make sure that the option "Always leave a copy of the message on the server is selected". You may refer to the article provided by the previous moderator to learn about this.

Thanks.

Thank you for your message and clarification.

Where can I locate detailed technical documentation about Windows Live Mail?

I need to answer questions like:

• Were and how are local copies of message stored?
• How can I specify the folder names used by the IMAP server (mainly, a third party server)?
• What is the exact meaning of the settings I can configure?

Regards

marius

Hi,

You may go to this link to learn more about Windows Live Mail and its features and click on Mail tab. To answer your questions:

1. The local copies of your archived email are store in a folder called Storage folder. Emails that were downloaded/sync are just saved temporarily on your computer. Meaning, if you are offline or removed the account in Windows Live Mail, you won't be able to view and read the emails.

2. IMAP is simply a transport protocol between a mail client and a mailbox on a server. It's up to the server admin to decide which protocols can be used to access a mailbox. In short, you can use IMAP server only if your email service provider supports this protocol. As for Hotmail accounts, we are using SMTP, POP and Deltasync when adding the account to mail client programs. If you configure the account via IMAP, it will syncronized all emails in Windows Live Mail displyed as what's in your online account. You can create a folder under Storage folder to archive your emails if you want to back them up.

3. POP mail server or "POP server" is the most common form of incoming email server. POP server is what receives the email and is almost always used with an SMTP server, which is the outgoing server. Some more advanced, fully-featured access like EAS and DeltaSync, that not only synchronize the contents of folders between client and server, but also handle other data that has to be kept current, like contacts and calendars.

For more details on how to add an account and how to back up emails other other information in your account in Windows Live Mail, please read these article:

How do I add an account to Windows Live Mail?

How do I import and export email, contacts, and calendars with Windows Live Mail?

Thanks!

Ditto. As the software adjusts to climate changes..

Ditto. As the software adjusts to climate changes..

It's not terribly clear what you mean. The post you replied to is almost two years old; it was only correct as far as Hotmail accounts were concerned then - IMAP has been supported in Windows Live Mail since the beginning in 2006. Hotmail accounts (any with a mailbox at http://mail.live.com) can now be accesses via IMAP from a mail client.