Change Windows Live Mail Settings

You can easily modify the Mail app’s settings in Windows 10. Click the little gear icon in the Mail app’s bottom-left corner, and the Settings pane slides into view along the app’s right edge. There, the Mail app lets you adjust its behavior in these ways:

Change Windows Live Mail Settings

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  • Accounts: Head here to tweak the settings of your currently entered email accounts, as well as to add new accounts. When an email account’s settings work, though, you rarely need to change them.

  • Options: Here’s where you can adjust how the app responds to your fingers on a touchscreen. You can also change your signature— the words appearing beneath every email you send.

  • Trust Center: This oddly named and mysterious entry lets you control whether Microsoft can send you information based on your email’s content. Presumably, this authorizes Microsoft’s robots to send you pertinent ads, as well as for Cortana to read your mail. (When the Trust Center pane appears, click the Learn More link to read Microsoft’s online privacy page.)

  • Feedback: A holdover from when Microsoft let people test Windows 10 before its release, this option lets you send Microsoft comments about the app’s performance. Presumably, somebody at Microsoft is still listening.

  • About: Handy mostly when troubleshooting, this area reveals the app’s version number.

Change Windows Live Mail Account Settings

You may never need to set foot in the Settings area, but when things go wrong, this is usually the first troubleshooting destination.

Apr 12, 2016  This video will show you how to set up a POP / IMAP mailbox in Windows Live Mail For support, visit or call 0333 0142 700. Change the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) field to the same as your incoming mail server. Down the bottom of the window, check the box 'My server requires authentication' and then click the 'Settings' button.

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