Configure windows mail vista

This page explains how to set up the "Windows Mail" email program that comes with Microsoft Windows Vista to send and receive email for a mailbox that you've created. To avoid confusion, we should mention that "Windows Mail" is the actual name of the mail program that comes with Windows Vista, not a generic phrase meaning "any email program on Windows Vista".

If you're setting up another mail program on Vista, such as Outlook , Outlook Express , Windows Live Mail , Eudora , or Thunderbird , follow the instructions for that program instead of continuing on this page. These instructions are based on Windows Mail version 6. Before you continue, you should enter your email address the address you want to set up in Windows Mail in the box above. Entering your email address makes sure that the instructions below are correct. Start the Windows Mail program from your Start menu.

If you do not have any mail accounts defined yet, the Internet Connection Wizard will automatically begin and will display the Your Name window.

If this happens, continue with step 4 of these instructions. When prompted to select the type of account to add, select E-mail Account , then click Next. The wizard asks for your name. This is the name that other people will see when you send them email. This web site contains links to other Internet sites, and such links are not endorsements of any products or services of such sites, and no information in such Internet sites has been endorsed or approved by CVC Internet, LLC.

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If you have problems configuring your client, please update your software to the latest version. In the "Internet Accounts" screen, click the "Add" button.

Example : If you have an e-mail address such as username cvc. Example 2 : If you have an e-mail address such as username cvcwireless. Example: If the website name is uniqueshop. When we download e-mail messages from the server, we can choose to delete the message from the server or to leave it once it is downloaded to the Windows Mail client.

Windows mail provides new tools which will help us to manage junk mail more efficiently. Junk mail filtering now has four levels. In the last level, only messages from our contacts will get to our Inbox folder. All others will be sent to junk e-mail folder. We also have an option to block HTML content in e-mails. Phishing filter which is integrated in Internet Explorer also protects our e-mails Windows Mail uses the same engine filter.

There are also rules that we can set up in Windows Mail. For example, we can route certain type of messages to certain folders. Also, we can use multiple profiles in Windows Mail. All messages are exportable, so if we need to move to another environment, that can be easily done. There are some default settings in Windows Mail that we should be aware of.

For example, it will block images and other file attachments with extensions like. We should always use caution when opening e-mail attachments. HTML format for e-mails is susceptible to malicious intent.

Phishing links are often used in spam e-mails that we view in HTML format. We should always be careful when clicking on links in messages. Windows Contacts are integrated in Windows Mail. To set up e-mail account we need to have a valid e-mail address. We have to know e-mail server names so that we can send and receive e-mail. We also have to know our credentials user name and password to sign in to our account. When we first open it, it will prompt us to open e-mail account. For the purpose of this demo we will use a Utilize Windows e-mail account.

On the next screen we have to enter information about incoming and outgoing mail servers. In our case we will select the POP3 protocol.