How To Setup Email in Windows Live Mail

We offer both secure and non-secure methods of connecting to our email server. The secure method protects your password from being intercepted (by using an SSL certificate)

Secure Method

1. Launch Windows Live Mail
2. Go to the Accounts tab and click Email
3. Use the following settings:
   1. Email Address: Your email accounts username (user@domain.com)
   2. Display Name: Enter your name as you want it to appear on your outbound email
   3. Password: Your email accounts password
4. Check the box to Manually configure server settings for the e-mail account
5. Click Next
6. Enter the following settings:
   1. INCOMING MAIL SERVER:
      • Host Name: dixie.simplywebservices.net (this is our secure email server)
      • User Name: Your email accounts username (ex: user@domain.com)
      • Password: Your email accounts password
      • Port: IMAP = 993  / POP3 = 995
      • Check This server requires a secure connection (SSL)
   2. OUTGOING MAIL SERVER:
      • Host Name: dixie.simplywebservices.net (this is our secure email server)
      • User Name: Your email accounts username (ex: user@domain.com)
      • Password: Your email accounts password
      • SMTP Port: 465
      • Check – This server requires a secure connection (SSL)
      • Check – This server requires authentication
7. Click Next
8. Click Finish

Unsecure Method

1. Launch Windows Live Mail
2. Go to the Accounts tab and click Email
3. Use the following settings:
   1. Email Address: Your email accounts username (user@domain.com)
   2. Display Name: Enter your name as you want it to appear on your outbound email
   3. Password: Your email accounts password
4. Check the box to Manually configure server settings for the e-mail account
5. Click Next
6. Enter the following settings:
   1. INCOMING MAIL SERVER:
      • Host Name: mail.domain.com
      • User Name: Your email accounts username (ex: user@domain.com)
      • Password: Your email accounts password
      • Port: IMAP = 143/ POP3 = 110
   2. OUTGOING MAIL SERVER:
      • Host Name: mail.domain.com
      • User Name: Your email accounts username (ex: user@domain.com)
      • Password: Your email accounts password
      • SMTP Port: 25 or 587
      • Check – This server requires authentication
7. Click Next
8. Click Finish

POP3 downloads the email from a server to a single computer, then deletes the email from the server. On the other hand, IMAP stores the message on a server and synchronizes the message across multiple devices.

Our servers do not support using the secure method and using your domain name, you must use dixie.simplywebservices.net