Connecting to Outlook Live with Windows Live Mail (POP)

STEP 1:

Open up Windows Live Mail, and Click on the button "Windows Live Mail" which is located on the left hand side of the scree.

Open Windows Live, and Click Add and email account

STEP 2:

When the "Add an E-mail Account" windows open you will want to enter University Email Address which should be in the format of "bat0900@byui.edu". You will then enter in your University password. You will also enter in your Full name. Once you have done this you will hit the "Next >" button.

enter your information in and click manually configure server settings.

STEP 3:

In this window you will want to select POP3 as your "Incoming Mail server". The Incoming server name will be "outlook.com". You will then check the Box, "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)." This will change the Port to 995, verify that this happened. You will then need to enter in your Login ID which will be your University Email address. You will then enter your Outgoing Server information. The outgoing server is different for everyone to find out what you Outgoing Server is click here and follow the directions. Once you have the Server name enter it in and then Check the Box "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)". You port number shold stay 25 just make sure that it still is. Once your done click the "Next >" button.

“If you are on campus you may use mail.byui.edu to send email. If you are off campus you must use another mail server to send mail. BYUI currently does not support an outgoing mail server that is available both on and off campus.”

Select Email account

STEP 4:

You will then be informed that you have finished the setup click the "Finish" button.

Enter your Full name and University Email address

STEP 5:

Your emails should now begin to download. You will be able to tell by looking in your Inbox.

Your emails should now begin to download

STEP 6:

As an added step of precaution, you need to keep a copy of your E-mails on the server, to do this you will need to right-click on the account name, and then select Properties from the menu (as shown Below).

right click and select properties.

STEP 7:

In this window you will want to click on the "Advanced" tab. In this tab you want to go down to the Delivery portion, you want to make sure that the check box "Leave a copy of message on server" is checked, and the check box "Remove from server when deleted from 'Deleted Items' " is not checked. This will prevent from any emails being lost. Once you have done this hit the "Apply" then the "OK" buttons and your done.

If you require additional help Microsoft has some more resources which can be found here.

make sure you leave all messages on the server

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