You can add your various email accounts to Windows Mail and manage your messages and newsgroups. Comcast provides a free email account when you sign up for its Internet, phone or cable services. It is primarily accessed through the official Comcast webpage, but you can configure Windows Mail to manage your Comcast email account.
Click the Windows "Start" button in your computer's taskbar. It is an orb containing the Windows logo. Click "All Programs" in the menu that appears, and then click "Windows Mail. Click "Tools" in the menu at the top of your screen, and click "Accounts" in the drop-down menu that appears. This opens the Internet Accounts window. Enter the name that you want to appear in messages that will be sent through Windows Mail in the "Display name" field, and then click the "Next" button.
You will be prompted for your preferred display name this is not important and your email address eg. On the Set up e-mail servers screen:- Select POP from the pull-down menu for Incoming e-mail server type then set:- my-domain.
Under the General tab you can choose a name to refer to this account. On the Servers tab my-domain. Make sure that Log on using Secure Password Authentication is not ticked. Under Outgoing Mail Server check that My server requires authentication is ticked.
Select the Settings button and check that Use same settings as my incoming mail server is ticked, then select OK. Now select the Advanced tab. Many ISPs now block outgoing port 25 to reduce spam. To check if your ISP does, and to find out what ports are available, click here. If port 25 is blocked, Click the Advanced tab, then put in an available port such as 26, as returned by the port test tool.
If you do decide to run it you need to exercise considerable caution and may need to modify its spam defaults. For example if you keep the default spam settings then communications from the RegCa, and similar messages may well end up in Windows Mail's spam folder Graphical Instructions if you did not like the preceding.
Click on Add Next to E-mail address: type your email address then click Next. Still Having Problems? If you are using Rogers broadband click here. This allows them to monitor spammers, and help to reduce to the overwhelming amounts of spam and exploitation that occurs daily with email. In this case we suggest you set your outgoing mail server to exactly the same setting as you use for your ISP.
If you are not certain what these are: check on this list below for your ISP. The only configuration options offered by Microsoft only seem to allow Windows Mail or Yahoo. Am I missing something? Does anyone know of a workaround? Most Points The Distinguished Expert awards are presented to the top veteran and rookie experts to earn the most points in the top 50 topics.
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