Susan,
First, when you install the Livemail thing from Microsoft, as you run the
installer, there are about nine or so checkboxes at the beginning. These
determine which of the components you will be installing. If you don't want
anything else, then just uncheck all of them except for the mail program
itself.
Second, you have two choices here. When you install Gmail, when you run
Livemail, you can tell it your GMail address and it will automatically
configure that for you, but it will configure it as a Mapi email client.
If you want, you can set up Gmail manually instead. I'm going from memory
here, because our Windows Live Mail is the earlier version that doesn't have
the ribbons. In that version, accounts was under the Tools menu.
I think you need to go to the Office Ribbon with alt-h and look for
accounts. Or, it could be under the Options tab that you can access with
control-shift-o, but I am not certain about that. Microsoft says when you
open WLM, you click on Mail and then you will see accounts, for whatever
that's worth.
Once you find accounts, you do things in the same way that you did for
Outlook Express. On the first tab, you enter in your Gmail address,
password etc. Then, you go to the servers tab to specify the Gmail Pop3 and
SMTP. You will need to go to the advanced tab to specify the port numbers
and enable SSL checkboxes.
NOTE: Before you set up your email in Google Mail, you need to log-in to
Google Mail and check the radio button to enable Pop3.
Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
Steve
Lansing, MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Wojtecki" <[email protected]>
To: "jaws-users-list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 1:02 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] setting up Windows Live mail
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Hi Everyone,
I've had a new Windows 7 system for about a month. This was not a PC
with a preinstalled system so we installed Windows 7 and office 2007
but no email client. I attempted to install Windows live mail but
could not configure Pop3 access. I tried to follow the directions but
for some reason my Gmail password is not being accepted. I don't know
whether this is a problem with Comcast as my ISP or something about
gmail vs. microsoft. At this point I'm very confused about the
difference, if any, between Hotmail or Windows Live vs. live mail and
wonder whether it would be easier to enable Pop3 with a Microsoft
identity. At this point I've uninstalled Windows Live Essentials and
want to start from scratch because it was such a mess. By the way, is
there any place to go just to download the email client itself without
all the junk that Microsoft in its infinite wisdom wants to include?
Anyway, I would appreciate advice on this either on or off list at
[email protected]. Any assistance much appreciated.
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