Sunday 3 February 2013

k-9 Mail and Windows Live Mail

It's not used a great deal, but I have a Windows Live mail account and a slightly aging Android 2.1 phone (the Orange San Francisco).

While the Orange San Francisco is not my primary device it is useful for some purposes and reading e-mail is one I use it for.

Getting the Windows Live mail settings right in k-9 mail were a bit of a challenge.

I have a live.co.uk address but after a bit of experiment I found the following.

1) Windows Live mail doesn't seem to support IMAP
2) Windows Live mail doesn't seem to support the version of WebDav that k-9 does

so.....

it's POP3 then.

The settings that worked were

Fetching mail

Incoming server settings

e.mail.address@live.co.uk
password
pop3.live.com
SSL (if available)
PLAIN
995

Sending mail

Outgoing server settings

smtp.live.com
TLS(always)
587
(require sign in - ticked)
AUTOMATIC
e.mail.address@live.co.uk
password

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    Alfanso

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