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Setting up Hotmail to Get your Email

Want to get EUUC email through Hotmail, MSN, or Live?

If you log into one of the Microsoft online applications to access your personal email, then you might want that application to also handle your @euuc.org emails. If so, follow these steps.

Microsoft Hotmail, MSN, or Live settings

Alternative instructions for Live Mail on Dreamhost.com

The email settings that work on one computer might not work on another one, because they are driven by the email application, the internet service provider, and the hosting company all communicating together.

These settings were successful with Microsoft Live/Hotmail.

Incoming mail

IMAP or POP server: mail.euuc.org
Port 143
Secure connection (SSL): uncheck the box

Outgoing mail

Server: mail.euuc.org
Port 25 or 587
Secure connection (SSL): check the box
Requires authentication: check the box

DreamHost has excellent instructions for setting up your account in MSN, Live, or Hotmail: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Windows_Live_Mail. Either follow the DreamHost instructions, or follow the ones below.

Stepping through the menus

Log into your Live or Hotmail account at www.msn.com, www.live.com or www.hotmail.com, then open your inbox. This screen is for Nancy Samuels' account. Look for your name in your window and two lines below that is Options.

Hotmail inbox

Click on Options and Select More Options.

Hotmail Options menu

Under Managing your account click on Sending/receiving email from other accounts.

Hotmail Options menu

Here is the account setup panel. To receive mail from your EUUC email account, click Add an Email Account under You can receive mail from these accounts.

Hotmail Send-Receive setup menu

Now, we'll show the steps to get MSN/Hotmail/Live set up to receive and send mail. Fill in your email account and password. Click Next.

hotmail: add an email account menu

MSN, Live or Hotmail will try to guess the other information it needs. You will probably get an error message because it guessed incorrectly for the server address. Here is the correct information:

  • email address: first.last@euuc.org
  • user name: first.last@euuc.org
  • incoming mail server: mail.euuc.org
  • port 110
  • Do not check the box for an SSL secure connection.
  • You may choose whether to leave a copy of your email on the server.

Hotmail incorrect server

Now you can choose where you want new emails from your EUUC account to appear. In the following example, we typed "EUUC" so the new messages will be stored in a separate folder. If you just want the new messages to appear in your inbox, click An existing folder.

Hotmail choose a save folder

Finally, you will receive the following screen. Click Continue to Hotmail.

Hotmail https message

Now you see your new send and receive accounts are set up, but there is a message in red, Waiting for verification.

Hotmail waiting for verification

Return to your inbox and check for an email message from MSN, Hotmail, or Live. If you created a folder for your EUUC email, your message will be in that folder. The image below shows the Inbox directory with EUUC(1) in bold meaning that there is one unread message in that folder. Click on EUUC(1) Then click the verification link in the email sent from MSN, Hotmail, or Live to complete the setup process.

Hotmail inbox directory

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