Live Essentials 2011 Email Setup

Overview

This article explains how to configure Windows Live Essentials 2011 to work with your ShoutCMS email account.

 

1. Using a web browser, navigate to your webmail landing page at  http://webmail.yourdomain.com where "yourdomain.com" is the name of your website. Make note of the name of your Incoming and Outgoing Mail Servers (e.g. mail4.shoutcms.net).
   
   
   
2. Click the Accounts tab.
3. Click the Email button.
4. Fill in your email address, email password, and full name.
5. Checkmark "manually configure server settings". Click the next button.
6. Select IMAP as the server type.
7. Enter your Incoming Mail Server (noted from step 1). Change the Port to 993.
   
8. Select Authenticate using: Clear Text.
9. Fill in your login username: your full email address
10. Enter your Outgoing Mail Server (noted from step 1). Change the Port number from 25 to 465.
11. Checkmark "Requires Authentication".
12. Click the next button.
13. Click the finish button.
14. Your email client should now be setup.