Setup bellsouth.net email on windows live

Select Next and then Finish. You're ready to go. Already have your email setup, but want to update your email account with your secure mail key? On the General tab: Verify your Name and Email address. Make sure Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing is checked. Check that the Incoming Mail Server has the correct email address. Enter or paste your secure mail key in the Password field. Make sure Remember password is checked.

Confirm My server requires authentication is selected for Outgoing Mail server. Use the following type of encrypted connection - SSL. Select Apply and then OK. Looking for more info? Resolve email issues. For the incoming server address, enter pophm. Under the incoming server address, select Requires a secure connection SSL. For the logon user name, enter your Bell Mail address. For the outgoing server address, enter smtphm. Under the outgoing server address, select Requires a secure connection SSL.

Select Requires authentication. The email account has been added. Click Finish. Was this article useful? I've read the other posts and tried to use those solutions, but cannot get the bellsouth account to sync with Mail. I am using the advanced mailbox settings and am using the "inbound.

I am using those settings on my laptop and they work just fine. However, they don't seem to be working in this newer version. What am I doing wrong? Mail keeps telling me that my settings are "out of date," but my password is current, which I have already verified. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Except that it still handles it as IMAP and doesn't delete the messages from the server once read, which is why I use it as preview and mail send app and use another email client OE classic to store my inbound emails permanently once they start piling up on the server.

This then empties the inbox on Mail. Since this is an App that can be used on multiple devices and you want to see all your mail on all devices the mail has to stay on the server or else mail will be scattered over different devices and only be visible on the devices that messages were saved to. This is most likely the reason why the Mail app leaves messages on the server even in POP mode. The Mail application has become a moot point as I have since purchased Office and it contains Outlook The Outlook works just fine and I won't be using Mail.

Except that is still handles it as IMAP and doesn't delete the messages from the server once read or even deleted , which is why I use it as preview and mail send app and use another email client OE classic to store my inbound emails permanently once they start piling up on the server.

While I don't know what triggers it during normal use I do know how to invoke it. Somehow this has to do with changing the mail server SSL settings and this is how the app stops you from going forward without identifying yourself. You are blocked out of syncing your account unless you provide your password. Both the account and the sync button get a warning sign added to it and Syncing brings back the aforementioned message banner.