This article applies to the current release of Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail can be downloaded here.

Click on "Add e-mail account."

Fill in the following information:

1. Your Hover email address and password. Ensure the "Remember password" box is checked.

2. Enter your name as you wish it to appear when you send email as the Display Name.

3. Put a check next to "Manually configure server settings for e-mail account."

Click Next.

Enter the following settings in the two sections:

1. Incoming Server Information

a. Select IMAP from the "My incoming mail server is a X server" drop down list.
b. Incoming server is mail.hover.com.
c. Put a check next to "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)." This will change the port from 143 to 993. Leave 993 as the port number.
d. Log on using needs to be set to "Clear text authentication."
e. Enter your full email address as the Login ID.

2. Outgoing Server Information

a. Outgoing server is mail.hover.com.
b. Put a check next to "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)." Change the port from 25 to 465.
c. Put a check next to "My outgoing server requires authentication."

Click Next.

Click Finish.

A list of your IMAP folders on our server will be displayed. By default, all folders will be made visible.

If you want to change which folders are displayed in Windows Live Mail, hold down the Ctrl key and select individual folders then click on the Show or Hide button.

Click OK.

The email address has now been added to Windows Live Mail and all of the IMAP folders are listed on the left hand side under the name of the account.

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

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