Windows Live Mail
“Manage multiple email accounts, calendars,
and your contacts, even when you're offline”
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This brief documentation includes the following:
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::: Introduction To Windows Live Mail
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::: Install and configure
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::: Basic features of Windows Live Mail 2011 (part 1)
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::: Basic features of Windows Live Mail 2011 (part 2)
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How to install and configure Windows
Live Mail 2011
Email has become a big part of our daily life, it would be hard to live without this type of
communication anymore, and at the same time it becomes harder to organize all
messages, events, contact, etc. Here is when Windows Live Mail 2011 comes in handy.
This is a free software that is part of the Microsoft Windows Live Essentials suite, that can
help you to organize all your emails — multiple email accounts is supported –, you can
also add email accounts from different services like Hotmail (or Live), Gmail, and Yahoo!
–Just remember that you need to be using Yahoo! Plus –; calendar, RSS feeds, contacts,
and more. Also it is easy to install, configure, use, and you can expect to find all the
functionalities necessary for the day-to-day work with emails.
Windows Live Mail 2011 core features:
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Easy to organize multiple email accounts and emails.
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Group conversations from the same subject.
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Send tons of high quality pictures easily and fast, because of the integration with
SkyDrive.
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Search is built-in right in your inbox, which makes easier to find messages.
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Add events to the calendar right from your inbox.
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Add and manage contacts.
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RSS feeds capabilities.
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Centralize all your emails into one inbox timeline with Quick View.
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How to install Windows Live Mail 2011
This installation is pretty simple, most of the steps are just your usual next, next, next.
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Go to Windows Live Mail 2011 page, click Download now, and Run.
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Windows Live Essentials 2011 installation, start and clicks on choose the
programs you want to install.
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Uncheck all products and only leave selected Mail and click Install. Now just wait
for the installation to be finished and then click Close.
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Next, start Windows Live Mail.
The first time you run the program it is going to ask you to enter your email account
information, after adding it, choose whether or not to remember your password, and click
next. If you don’t have an email account you can just click Get a Windows Live email
address link to create one.
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Adding a normal email account
5. In the next question just click Yes and then Finish.
Note: If you need to add multiple email accounts click on Add another email account
instead of Finish to repeat the process.
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Adding an iChat Email account
Adding an iChat Email is just like adding a normal email account.
1. After providing your email credentials, tick the option manually configures server
settings. Then click next.
2. Use the settings provided in the following picture.
3. In the Logon user name field, provide your full email address
E.g. [email protected]
4. Insert the server address as shown in the picture above(For iChat accounts)
5. Click Next and then Finish.
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Configuring Windows Live Mail 2011
options:
With the default options that are set in Windows Live Mail 2011 should be more than
alright for your everyday work, but if you think that you need to tweak some of the settings,
go to menu, select Options, and click on Mail.
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There you’ll find most of the settings that you can customize:
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Customization for Send/Receive Messages.
Make Windows Live Mail 2011 your default email program.
Read, Receipts, Send, Compose, Signatures, Connection, and Advanced options.
Spelling settings, custom dictionary, and configure languages
And many other settings.
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Learn how to use basic features of
Windows Live Mail 2011 [Part1]
We previously looked at How to install and configure Windows Live Mail 2011 and
highlighted its core features. Now in this article we are going to learn how easy is to get
the most of Windows Live Mail 2011.
How to organize conversations
Turn conversation view on and off
From the View tab, click Conversations, and in the sub-menu click onor off.
Expand/collapse conversations
From the View tab, click Expand/collapse, and in the sub-menu click Expand or
Collapse.
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How to add and remove multiple email
accounts
From Mail inbox, click the Accountstab, then click Emailand complete the form, click
Next, and Finish. Notice that you can also click Properties to change all the necessary
email account settings.
Tip: If you are trying add a Gmail account, you may need to enable IMAP for the account,
for more help check out Gmail Help.
To remove an email account, select the account you like to remove, right-click select
Remove Account, and click Yes.
If you add another email account just click Add another email account.
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How to add an event right from your
inbox
First you need to have Calendar pane on, if you don’t, just go to the Viewtab, and click
Calendar pane.
Now adding a new event is pretty simple you only need to type your note in at the
bottom-right of the Calendar pane, then if you need to add more details, double-click the
event.
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Learn how to use basic features of
Windows Live Mail 2011 [Part2]
To wrap-up with Windows Live Mail 2011 in Part 2, we are going to learn some remaining,
but interesting features that couldn’t make it in Part 1 and they will show you more ways to
work with your emails.
How to send tons of pictures
One of the great things in today’s communication technology is the ability to share
pictures with family & friends, and Windows Live Mail 2011 makes this task pretty darn
easy.
Add and sharing the pictures
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While in Mail 2011 inbox, on the Home tab, click Photo email. Browse and
choose the pictures you want to send and click Open.
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With the Album styles you can just simple attach the pictures or select from a
range of style, if you need to add more pictures just click on Add or remote photos.
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Now thanks to Microsoft SkyDrive you can choose who you can share your
pictures with. To do this, click Format and then click Album privacy to select who is going
to be able to see your pictures. Note that by default, only the people you are sending the
email will be able to see the pictures.
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Remember to fill the destination email address, subject, and click Send.
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Adding contacts and RSS feeds
Adding contacts is pretty straight forward. Click Contacts in the bottom-left and then click
Contact to add a new contact, or for an existing contact click Edit contact.
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Adding a RSS Feed it is also really easy. Click Feeds in the bottom-left and click Feed,
then paste the RSS link, for example: Pureinfotech RSS feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Pureinfotech, and click OK.
Bonus:
How to customize Quick Access
Toolbar
A lot of times this menu gets ignore and sometimes it can save you time, so I just wanted
to point out and tell you that not only have those three options, you can add many more by
just clicking the down-arrow and selecting additional functionalities, also change the
position of the Quick Access Toolbar with the option Show below the Ribbon. Last if you
need to optimize the view space you can use the option Minimize the Ribbon– pretty
handy option–.
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