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Unable to send or receive emails from home - Windows Live

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Hello,
I am trying to trouble shoot my boss' laptop. We have tried to set him up on Windows Live to use while he is at home and on the road. We have a server and it is setup/configured on his laptop correctly as it works EVERYWHERE else besides his home. I am guessing it is a Firewall or Router Setting issue. Since I don't go to his home, I am unable to trouble shoot it there - His family has an IPAD an ITOUUCH a personal computer and another laptop and they all send and receive mail fine. It is just my boss' laptop - Windows 7 - Home Edition - 64bit - Dell. ANY IDEAS??? Thinking maybe I need to change the port # in the settings on Microsoft Live.
BTW - we do have him set up to use the Exchange by logging into our IP - but he just cannot seem to get the hang of doing that - even though i have everything shortcutted and instructions on the desktop...Also have had him just use Log Me In - and he doesn't like the small screen....

Thanks for any help.

I cant figure out how to upload a screen shot - Under the properties portion under Accounts - outgoing is 465 and incoming is 993 - However there is another area with settings - and under that one it is 25 outgoing and incoming is 110 - should i change that to the 465 and 993?? OR????

Koiotic said:
I cant figure out how to upload a screen shot - Under the properties portion under Accounts - outgoing is 465 and incoming is 993 - However there is another area with settings - and under that one it is 25 outgoing and incoming is 110 - should i change that to the 465 and 993?? OR????



I have had this same problem before and yes you need to make sure that you are using port 465 for outgoing (SMTP) and port 995 (POP3) (or 993) for incoming.
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