Win 7 WLMail, settings

[carloseastman]

My ISP settings are correctly filed but WLM seems not to read the correct setting, e.g. for Servers.

From my ISP advised to go Tools, etc but on WLM I cannot find 'Tools'?

How do I make WLM reflect my ISP settings?

With my ISP (Italy's Telecom's Alice adsl), the setting are correct but the user name is theirs, i.e. 'aliceadsl'. Is this what I must type in when creating the folder in WLM?

Many thanks, all suggestions, expertise and teasing accepted!

Carlos Eastman

 

[Ian]

Hi Carlos, welcome to the forums

Your ISP may be providing instructions for Outlook rather than WLM, so don't worry if you can't find the tools menu - you should be able to add your mail account using the following tutorial : http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mail-add-email-account-faq. In WLM 2011, just click Accounts > E-mail and then enter your e-mail address and password, it will try to auto-detect the settings.

From what I can tell, all of the settings you need to enter are listed on this page:

http://aiutobusiness.alice.it/informazioni/clientemail/outlook_07.html,cnt=4030&rel=0.html

The walkthrough is for Outlook 2007, but the settings you need for POP3 servers etc... are all there. I don't think you'll be using "aliceadsl" as your username - it will probably be your e-mail address.