Windows Live Mail: Install and Send Email

Windows Live Mail is especially interesting for people with Windows 7. That operating system does not have its own mail program. You can use Windows Live Mail with a provider address or, for example, your Gmail address. We no longer recommend the program for use with a Microsoft e-mail address. Such an email address ends with @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @hotmail.nl, @live.com, @live.nl, @msn.com or @msn.nl.

You can download Windows Live Mail from the “Windows Live Mail” article. There you will find all the instructions for downloading Windows Live Mail.

The Live Mail program is located in Windows 7 under Start > All Programs > Windows Live Mail. If you use Windows 8.1, you can find the program as a tile on the Start screen or via the shortcut on the Desktop. In Windows 10, click Start > All apps > Windows Live Mail.

When you open the program for the first time, you will see a screen where you can add e-mail accounts.

If you don’t see this screen, click on the tab Accounts and then the button E-mail. This button has an at sign with a green plus sign .

We explain below how to link a Gmail address and how to link a provider address.

To manage the mail from your Gmail address in Windows Live Mail, link the Gmail address as follows:

• Enter your Gmail address and associated password in the appropriate fields.
• Enter a screen name that will be shown to email recipients.
• To use a Gmail account it is necessary to enable IMAP. You will receive a notification in English. You can read how to enable IMAP when you click on Gmail Help. In short it comes down to the following.
• You log in to your Gmail account via the browser and click on it Institutions.
• Click on the tab Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
• Click on the circle for Enable IMAP.
• Press the button Saving Changes.
• Then return to Windows Live Mail.
• In Windows Live Mail, check Configure server settings manually.
• click on Next one.
• Click in the box under ‘Server type’ and then click IMAP.
• In the field under ‘Incoming mail server information’, type imap.gmail.com.
• In addition, in the text box under ‘Port’, type the number 993.
• Put a tick in front of Requires a secure connection (SSL).
• In the text box under ‘Outgoing server information’, type smtp.gmail.com.
• In addition, under ‘Port’, type the numbers 465 or 587.
• Put a tick in front of Requires a secure connection (SSL).
• In Windows Live Mail, click Next one.

After adding one email account, you can choose whether to complete the action or add another email account. You can then work with multiple e-mail addresses within the e-mail program. Want to add another email account? Then click on Add another email account . If you don’t want this, click on Complete .

• Enter the email address and password associated with your provider email.
• click on Next one.
• click on Complete.

After adding one email account, you can choose whether to complete this action or add another email account. You can then work with multiple e-mail addresses within the e-mail program. Want to add another email account? Then click on Add another email account.

The program opens the mail folders on the left and the contents of the folders or messages on the right.

At the very top, you’ll see “Quick Look.” Below you can see at a glance all unread e-mails from all added e-mail addresses. This can be useful if you use multiple addresses.

In Windows Live Mail, you have a separate Inbox for each address added. This way you keep the emails from multiple addresses separate. If you don’t see the quick view, click the tab Image and click on ‘Layout’ Quick view.

To send an email, click on the button in the ‘Home’ tab Email message . An empty message appears. In it you can type the address of the recipient, add a subject and compose the rest of the email. Then click Send to send the email.