Setting up windows e-mail

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Just wanting to ask if anyone knows what info is needed when setting up a windows e-mail account.
They ask you to choose between POP3 and IMAP and then want to know my SMPT.
I have no idea what any of these are.
I only know I get my internet through Virgin and their e-mail never seems to work.
Any advice as I have no experience in this stuff.
Thanks.

WLM21

Why not consider a Googlemail (Gmail) account ?

https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail&continue=http://mail.google.com/mail/e-11-3a0b2e0678fff6a455864d6dde91a9-238dc583b386a62936eacbbbbe0a910b8eb9ef53&type=2

Web based emails (webmail) like Google can be read from any computer, a great benefit if you ask me.

POP3 such as a blueyonder or Sky email can only be read from one machine

grumpycrab

Yes, I also recommend Googlemail. The only difficult bit is the Word Verification which can take a couple of goes.

easyhost

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Just wanting to ask if anyone knows what info is needed when setting up a windows e-mail account.
They ask you to choose between POP3 and IMAP and then want to know my SMPT.
I have no idea what any of these are.
I only know I get my internet through Virgin and their e-mail never seems to work.
Any advice as I have no experience in this stuff.
Thanks.

well if you mean setting up your Virgin ISP email account so you can access in windows mail then use POP3 and their should be a tutorial on the virgin site showing you how to do this.

alanwjones

Does this help http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=351886&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1002&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=

easyhost

WLM21 wrote: »

POP3 such as a blueyonder or Sky email can only be read from one machine

well you dont know anything about emails do you apart from using all the FREE internet based emails.

to read POP emails you can have many machines set up to read these. i have 3 machines all setup with windows mail and my pop3 emails and can read from all machines also these blueyonder or Sky are what is called ISP emails, so you will have a webmail account with your ISP so you can access mails from your ISP account from any machine anywhere

googlemail, yahoo, hotmail are all good free email providers, but i can guarantee that a lot of online retailers now wont allow signup or orders placed using free email addresses due to high level of fraud from such emails.

WLM21

easyhost wrote: »

well you dont know anything about emails do you apart from using all the FREE internet based emails.

I never knew that, so thanks for that

I actually do have a blueyonder email as well as a couple of webmail accounts.

Regards !