Setting up Windows Live email account

[newtodroids]

Two days ago I purchased the new Droid 2 Global. I am trying to setup my windows live email account (its my school email) but I can not get it to work at all.

The droid is making me set it up manually and I went back to the verizon store today and the lady said she couldn't help me at all.

I googled my question and while there are people having the same issue, they do not have the droid 2 so I do not have the same setup as them and can't get my account to get setup.

Anyone that can help me I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you so much!

**Someone from another site gave me a tip on how to setup the incoming/outgoing servers but know I get a message that says that my username and/or password is incorrect.... but it is not. I went backed and retyped it in. So I am at a loss of what to do.

[mortb]

You are talking about Hotmail. I too use it, and it can be a pain. Every so often I get the little triangle that tells me that there is something wrong with my Hotmail. Don't know why, since everything is the same. So I normally ignore it and it goes away. Do you have the correct port numbers and security answers? If not, I can give them to you. By the way, I get this "you are wrong" message on both my Droid 2 and my Droid X. Have you tried powering off and then powering back on. That sometimes solves THAT nuisance problem.

[newtodroids]

Do you mind giving me the port info and such? I think I have the correct information but I could be wrong. I am willing to try anything to get it to work!

Thanks alot!

[mortb]

Incoming           Port   Question 1 Question 2         Outgoing               port      Question 1 Question 2

pop3.live.com   995    yes              yes                     smtp.live.com        587          no                yes

Hope this helps.

[newtodroids]

Ok that is what I had entered in and its still giving me the message that either my username or password is incorrect.

I'm not sure what is going on 😕

Thank you for your help

[mortb]

Okay, this is a long shot, but do you have Hotmail coming to your computer too? Did you use the absolutely same username and password on your Droid as you have on your computer? If you used a different one on the Droid, try changing it to what you are using on your computer.

[newtodroids]

I check my email with my computer browser if that is what you mean and I only have one username and password for the windows live account so that is the one I entered into the droid.

So I can always check that email account by just going through the browser on the droid I was just trying to make it a little easier on me by setting up the account this way.

Thanks for your help 

[jpeel]

Windows Live now allows exchange connections. Go into Settings>Accounts>Add Account type "Corporate"

Username: full hotmail email address

Password: hotmail password

server: m.hotmail.com

Use Secure Connection is checked

Accept all SSL certificates is checked

[newtodroids]

Ok so I tried the corporate sync and it appears as if it will go through but it says that it can't connect.

It says to enter the email address and password. It then has a box for domain and username which are optional so I did not enter anything into those two boxes and thats when I get the message that it can't connect to the account.

[mortb]

Something just isn't right here. May I suggest that you remove your Hotmail account. Then re-install it. You might just have a typo that you are not seeing, it happens.