Gmail in Windows Live Mail in 3 Easy Steps in Less than a minute
OK, this is very unusual…..
I usually like open source software or Mac software. But now Microsoft has come a long way from the buggy and user unfriendly software produce a few real gems !
I started using Windows live mail and quite like it ! By the way this was installed as part of the process when I installed Windows Live Writer (WLW is the other good software by windows and it’s free. ) at What is the best desktop client for Wordpress
I tried to setup Windows Live Mail to access a Gmail account,
Before doing this I did a bit of research by Googling for “windows live mail gmail”
After reading through the various tutorials I was not too impress with having to configure gmail accounts manually, so as always I conducted my experiment looking for an easy way
and found one !!
OK, All you have to do is
- In Gmail Settings –> Forwarding and POP/IMAP –> choose Enable IMAP –> Save Changes
- In Live Mail -> Enter
- Email address [thisismyname@gmail.com]
- Password for the Gmail account
- Display Name [This is my name]
- This is where it gets easier in my approach, DONT tick Manually configure server settings for e-mail account ! then Click Finish on the Next screen
This will successfully configure Windows Live email for Gmail in just 3 steps !
Enjoy, as always if you would like to share you experience please leave a comment below.