Basic, silly email question

My apologies in advance for this silly OT question. I have an msn.com
email address and access my emails using MSN Explorer and various
broadband connections. What are my send/receive email server names?

Thanks very much.

Bob Feduniak

Incoming Mail Server: pop3.email.msn.com.
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.email.msn.com.

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"Bob Feduniak" <robertfeduniak@msn.com> wrote in message
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> My apologies in advance for this silly OT question. I have an msn.com
> email address and access my emails using MSN Explorer and various
> broadband connections. What are my send/receive email server names?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Bob Feduniak
>

Hi, Bob.

I would agree with Dustin, but...

Here in Windows Mail, my MSN email servers are shown as:
pop3.live.com and\
smtp.live.com

I've had this RCWhite@msn.com account since 1995 but seldom use it.

RC
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"Bob Feduniak" <robertfeduniak@msn.com> wrote in message
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> My apologies in advance for this silly OT question. I have an msn.com
> email address and access my emails using MSN Explorer and various
> broadband connections. What are my send/receive email server names?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Bob Feduniak

RC, I've been unable to setup my MSN mail in Windows mail. Have new
computer with Vista Home premium, MSN dial up subcription with MSN version 9
, IE 7 .
Would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how you got set-up to work
( ie settings in addition to server names)

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"R. C. White, MVP" wrote:

> Hi, Bob.
>
> I would agree with Dustin, but...
>
> Here in Windows Mail, my MSN email servers are shown as:
> pop3.live.com and\
> smtp.live.com
>
> I've had this RCWhite@msn.com account since 1995 but seldom use it.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
>
> "Bob Feduniak" <robertfeduniak@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:1175790010.440033.291920@d57g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
> > My apologies in advance for this silly OT question. I have an msn.com
> > email address and access my emails using MSN Explorer and various
> > broadband connections. What are my send/receive email server names?
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> >
> > Bob Feduniak
>

Wendy

This may be an issue with Windows Mail no longer supporting HTTP email
accounts. Unless you have POP3 access to your MSN email account, you will
not be able to use that account in Windows Mail.

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"Wendy T" <WendyT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> RC, I've been unable to setup my MSN mail in Windows mail. Have new
> computer with Vista Home premium, MSN dial up subcription with MSN version
> 9
> , IE 7 .
> Would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how you got set-up to
> work
> ( ie settings in addition to server names)
>
> --
> Wendy T
>
>
> "R. C. White, MVP" wrote:
>
>> Hi, Bob.
>>
>> I would agree with Dustin, but...
>>
>> Here in Windows Mail, my MSN email servers are shown as:
>> pop3.live.com and\
>> smtp.live.com
>>
>> I've had this RCWhite@msn.com account since 1995 but seldom use it.
>>
>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> rc@grandecom.net
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>> (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
>>
>> "Bob Feduniak" <robertfeduniak@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:1175790010.440033.291920@d57g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
>> > My apologies in advance for this silly OT question. I have an msn.com
>> > email address and access my emails using MSN Explorer and various
>> > broadband connections. What are my send/receive email server names?
>> >
>> > Thanks very much.
>> >
>> > Bob Feduniak
>>

I agree with Ronnie. I know that a couple of years ago MS changed things so
that it was no longer possible to access Hotmail using Outlook Express. I
realize we are talking now about MSN mail and Windows Mail, but I think both
are basically in the same "family" as Hotmail and OE.
Wendy, would I be correct in assuming you could not access MSN mail via
Outlook or Outlook Express? That you had to go to the MSN mail website to
get your mail? Just think of Windows Mail as Outlook Express. Whatever
didn't work with Outlook Express won't work with Windows Mail.



"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv@invalid.org> wrote in message
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> Wendy
>
> This may be an issue with Windows Mail no longer supporting HTTP email
> accounts. Unless you have POP3 access to your MSN email account, you will
> not be able to use that account in Windows Mail.
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Wendy T" <WendyT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:95D8B911-9591-4660-B2DF-D0DA24088DF3@microsoft.com...
>> RC, I've been unable to setup my MSN mail in Windows mail. Have new
>> computer with Vista Home premium, MSN dial up subcription with MSN
>> version 9
>> , IE 7 .
>> Would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how you got set-up to
>> work
>> ( ie settings in addition to server names)
>>
>> --
>> Wendy T
>>
>>
>> "R. C. White, MVP" wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Bob.
>>>
>>> I would agree with Dustin, but...
>>>
>>> Here in Windows Mail, my MSN email servers are shown as:
>>> pop3.live.com and\
>>> smtp.live.com
>>>
>>> I've had this RCWhite@msn.com account since 1995 but seldom use it.
>>>
>>> RC
>>> --
>>> R. C. White, CPA
>>> San Marcos, TX
>>> rc@grandecom.net
>>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>>> (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
>>>
>>> "Bob Feduniak" <robertfeduniak@msn.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1175790010.440033.291920@d57g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
>>> > My apologies in advance for this silly OT question. I have an msn.com
>>> > email address and access my emails using MSN Explorer and various
>>> > broadband connections. What are my send/receive email server names?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks very much.
>>> >
>>> > Bob Feduniak
>>>
>

DP;2888944 Wrote:
> Just think of Windows Mail as Outlook Express. Whatever
> didn't work with Outlook Express won't work with Windows Mail.
>

That would be great if it wasn't wrong.

When you start up Windows Mail the wizard takes you through the setup,
and when you type your email address with the @msn.com domain it dumps
you out, and points you to a Q article which says that Windows Mail
doesn't support http mail any more.

Outlook Express, of course, allows you to set up a msn.com address.


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You could always try Windows Live Mail

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> DP;2888944 Wrote:
>> Just think of Windows Mail as Outlook Express. Whatever
>> didn't work with Outlook Express won't work with Windows Mail.
>>
>
> That would be great if it wasn't wrong.
>
> When you start up Windows Mail the wizard takes you through the setup,
> and when you type your email address with the @msn.com domain it dumps
> you out, and points you to a Q article which says that Windows Mail
> doesn't support http mail any more.
>
> Outlook Express, of course, allows you to set up a msn.com address.
>
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<snip> Outlook Express, of course, allows you to set up a msn.com
address.</snip>

....not much longer.. Today was supposed to be the end of hotmail and msn
accessibility in outlook express, but Microsoft has extended the cut-off for
now.

John Barnett MVP;3835055 Wrote:
> You could always try Windows Live Mail
>
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That would be great if all I wanted was a web client. But then, MSN
already HAS a web client.

One of the many examples of Microsoft's ambiguous naming conventions is
that there are two sorts of mail accounts with msn.com domains, some of
which are hotmail and some of which aren't. But the Windows Mail setup
wizard blithely assumes they're all hotmail, and says to hell with them.


If, as is the case here, you've been imprudent enough to be using OE as
your email client for your MSN account, and you've got 1.5 gb of mail
files on the hard drive of your aging XP box, you're kinda out of luck.
Unless you buy Office 2007, and hopefully you can import the OE
datafiles into Outlook 2007. Spend the money and see; it could work.


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