"Luke Calvert" <LukeCalvert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:970D9D8B-66D4-462C-95C5-1D8291F1FD0F@microsoft.com...
>
> In Control Panel - Mail - Mail Setup - email accounts, I type in the
> required
> details to set up an existing mail and it doesn't recognise it when it
> tries
> to read the server (red cross instead of tick). I have tried a Yahoo
> account,

Well the Yahoo account won't work unless you either pay for your account, or
have a Yahoo.co.uk or Yahoo.fr account...

> Windows Live account and another one, and tried using "unencrypted" and
> since
> my knowledge of Vista is fairly basic, I am not sure about doing it
> manually.
> I can't receive and send emails in Outlook 2007 because of this. What
> would
> be the problem?

Post the error message(s) in full, as the answer is usually in there
somewhere...