Hover 101
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Windows Mail

This lesson explains how to configure your Hover email in Windows Mail using POP3.

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Click on Tools and then Accounts.

Click on Add to start creating the account.

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Select the account type "E-mail Account" and click next.

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Enter your name and click Next.

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Enter in your email address and click next.

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Select POP3 as the server type and enter mail.hover.com for incoming mail and outgoing mail. Make sure you have checked off "Outgoing server requires authentication" then click Next.

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Enter your full email address as the "E-mail username" and enter your password then click Next.

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Check off "Do not Download my e-mail at this time" and Click Finish.

Edit Account Properties

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You will be brought back to the list of your accounts, double click on the mail.hover.com account.

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Click on the Advanced tab. Change the Outgoing mail (SMTP) port from 25 to 465. Check off "this server requires a secure connection (SSL)" for both Outgoing and Incoming mail.

Under Delivery you can choose to leave a copy of messages on the server. This is useful if you want to be able to download messages on more than one computer or access copies of old messages in Web Mail when you are away from your computer.

Click Apply then click OK to save your settings.

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Close Internet Accounts. Your account is now configured!

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Article Shortcut: http://about.hover.com/windowsmailipop

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