How would you setup Windows Mail?

Question

POP3 is the in coming mail and IMAP is the out going mail SMTP sever name and what is the Host name

Answer 1

POP3 and IMAP are two different ways of handling your incoming mail. With POP3, your messages are downloaded off of the servers onto your machine, and then normally deleted from the server. With IMAP, your mail stays on the server, so you can access it from any Internet-connected computer. SMTP is the outgoing mail server.



The specifics should be in the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section of the mail provider's web site. Each one will be different, so there is no way that we can tell you what to use in your case.



I second the vote for Thunderbird as the mail reader of choice. I have been using it for years. It is more secure than any Microsoft reader, and you can download add-ins to make it work better with some services such as Google Mail.



I also recommend Google Mail (http://gmail.com). Their spam filtering is the best I have seen. And you can have it retrieve your email from a POP3 account and run it through their spam filters. You than have the choice of using their web site, or using a mail reader such as Thunderbird with POP3 or IMAP. Personally, I use Gmail to filter my email and Thunderbird with IMAP to read my mail. Works like a charm.

Answer 2

Everything is circumstancial... What is your email address? If it's an e-mail address given to you by your ISP then you can call their technical support and they will walk you through everything.



If it's a free email account from something on the internet and you can google what your incoming/outgoing servers are.

Answer 3

hi, you will get this info out of your ISP - they're completely based on your ISPs servers. What you are attempting is googling something like this: tiscali mail server settings (for sure upload on your ISP) desire you get them!

Answer 4

Thunderbird is much better

http://getthunderbird.com/