Your new Windows 7 computer would most likely come with Windows Live Mail. If not, this email program is available for free from Microsoft (Live) web site. For step by step instructions, read how to download Windows Live Mail. Once the program is up and running, let us see how we can get Sky email on your Windows 7 system.
We would be employing POP3 (Post Office Protocol) for getting email messages from the Sky account to your computer. Windows Live Mail also has IMAP, but for this you need to check with the service provider if it’s available with them. IMAP synchronises the email account across all devices you use – computers, cellphones, tablets etc.
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Download Sky email on Windows 7 using Windows Live Mail
You can download Sky email messages on your Windows 7 computer via both POP and IMAP email protocols. The instructions below are for POP3, the Post Office Protocol. Also, you are not restricted to using Windows Live Mail. Any email program that supports these popular email protocols will work – Outlook, Thunderbird etc.
- Open Windows Live Mail program and locate the “Add e-mail account” link [Slide 1]; should be in the left column and jump to Slide 4.
Alternatively, hit the Alt key and choose “Accounts” from the “Tools” menu, click the “Add” button in the pop-up [Slide 2] and then “E-mail account” in the next screen [Slide 3].
- Type in the full Sky email address, the account password and a display name. Though the Display name can be anything you want, I recommend putting your real name [Slide 4]. Check the “Manually configure server settings for e-mail account” [Slide 5].
- The next screen is very important [Slide 6]. Make sure you select the POP3 protocol from the drop down and then provide the Sky incoming and outgoing mail servers
Incoming server: pop.tools.sky.com
Outgoing server: smtp.tools.sky.com
Check “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)” under both Incoming and Outgoing Server Information sections.
The incoming server port will change to 995. This is fine. Now put 465 in the Outgoing server port. This has to be done else you will not be able to send messages from your Sky email account.
Ensure that the login field has the full Sky email address.
Finally put a check mark for “My outgoing server requires authentication“.
- Hit the finish button to close the set up wizard pop-up window. You will find the newly added Sky email account listed in the left column.
If the program hasn’t started to download messages, click the “Sync” button in the top menu bar to get Sky email on your Windows 7 computer!
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