Windows 10: New Outlook.com and Windows Essentials Live Mail (WLM)

Version 2012 too

You can't change the existing account if that is what you are trying to Do ? just leave the old Hotmail account setup for now and set the Account up again , choose manually configure Server and IMAP and use the settings for ports etc above.

You can set up any account for Imap this way eg gmail ,yahoo etc , but you need to sign in on th e Web and enable IMAP on each of them 1st.




KB

 

Well, I guess I wasn't smart enough to do it the easy way.

 

*Smile As always with Windows there are at least 3 ways to do Stuff .........it's the end result that counts.....


KB

 

Thanks to @essenbe, @Kbird
I did create a fake yahoo mail and it did not work, use fake gmail and everything is cool.

 

Did you enable IMAP at Yahoo.com?


KB

 

Just a quick update , I am still using IMAP with WLM but it has been slow and throwing a number of errors getting and checking email, but this morning I found a tip online to change the Incoming Mail Server to :

outlook.office365.com

I have IPV6 as I am on fibre now so I am not sure if this fix works for everyone or not ? ( i saw ipv6 mentioned ) , but now WLM is pretty fast collecting mail etc , ie seconds not minutes and no error messages about Server errors since making the change

Tip found here: Setting up an Outlook.com IMAP account

KB

 

I changed both incoming and outgoing server, like this :

outlook.office365.com

smtp.live.com

Now WLM (2012 version) working smooth and fast. I can still sync contact list but the calendar can't be sync anymore. By the way i still use Windows 10 A.U not sure this setting can be applicable to latest Win 10 build.

 

thanks , I'll try smtp.live.com too , as the above .office365 incoming setting is working great