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Download and install Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector. Select Outlook Connector | Add a New Account... from the menu in Outlook. Type your Windows Live Hotmail address under E-mail address:. Enter your Windows Live Hotmail password under Password:.
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There are many different types of email accounts you can add to Outlook, including an Outlook.com or Hotmail.com account, the work or school account you use with Microsoft 365, Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, and Exchange accounts.
To add an email account to Outlook, you can also try our guided support, or select the tab for your Outlook version and follow the steps.
Steps may be different between
and classic Outlook for Windows. To determine which version of Outlook you're using, look for
on the ribbon. If there's no
option, follow the steps under the
You can now add a new account, or manage or delete existing accounts.
Some third-party email providers, like Gmail, Yahoo, and iCloud, require you to change some settings on their websites before you can add these accounts to Outlook.
, select a suggested account from the dropdown menu or enter a different email address, and select
If prompted, enter your password for the account and select
To delete or manage an account:
section, find the account you want to delete or manage, and then beside the account name, select
If you forgot the password for a Microsoft account, use our
to get back into your account, or see
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If you forgot your password for a work or school account, see
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- Type mail into the search box in the lower-right corner of the taskbar and select Mail App in the search results.
- A welcome page appears if this is the first time you have used the Mail app. If so, select Add Account and skip to step 4. If you have used the app before, select Settings in the lower-left corner of the Mail window and choose Manage Accounts.
- Select Add Account.
- The Add an Account window opens. Choose the type of email account you want to add, such as Outlook, Google, or Yahoo.
- While connecting an Outlook account, enter your username and password, check Manually configure server settings option and click Next.
- Set Server type to IMAP, change Server address to imap-mail.outlook.com, set port to 993 and check Requires a secure connection (SSL) option.
- Set Server address to smtp.live.com for Outgoing server information and check Require a secure connection (SSL).
- Enter your Outlook email address as your logon username and click Next.
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Jan 21, 2020 · To open an email from an @outlook.com or @hotmail.com email address, set up Windows Live Mail to communicate with the proper email server. To do that, type the correct IMAP and SMTP server during the account setup. Windows Live Mail uses those servers to download and send mail on your behalf.
