Some of the 'free' email services are not available in Outlook, eg Hotmail
requires the premium hotmail service.
When you test the account settings in OL you will receive err.msgs - post
these when you repost to an outlook group

"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,
> 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?
> --
> Regards
>
> Luke Calvert
>