If not, setup a new email address by going to the Accounts tab in the Ribbon, and clicking the " New email account" button: Tip: you can also add email accounts by clicking on the File button (top left corner), selecting Options, and choosing " Accounts" on the right: When the Accounts dialog opens, just click on the " Add" button.Įnter your full email address in the first text field, and your account password in the second (careful: it is case-sensitive). When you first open Windows Live Mail, you should automatically be prompted to add an email account. (We won't cover the various sub-options in this tutorial, but do notice that they exist!) Scroll all the way to the bottom and click " Save Changes" - you are done.
Under POP Download or IMAP Access (second and third sections), select to enable remote access: since we want to see our Gmail labels as folders in Windows Live Mail, we'll only enable IMAP (and this is the option Windows Live Mail auto-configures by default). Login to Gmail and click on the gear icon (top right) - select " Settings", and click on the " Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab on the Options page that loads next. Enable IMAP access for your Gmail account (or POP3)