Many K-12 teachers experience difficulty accessing from a school computer their Mounties email (formerly known as Windows Live Hotmail) from the mail.live.com or outlook.com web sites. If you have a good relationship with your tech guru (or offer an enticing bribe) you could try asking permission to open your school's firewall for your classroom, office or computer. If your power of persuasion does not work, there are a few alternatives, though there are no guarantees that any of these options will work.
Option A allows you to use your own mail client (after a bit of tweaking), Option B is quick and easy but requires the use of Microsoft Outlook and a downloadable plugin, and Option C relies on beta software from Microsoft.
Alternative Options
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Add a new account in your preferred mail client for Mounties Outlook Live (formerly known as Windows Live Hotmail). Stand alone mail clients include Outlook, Thunderbird, Entourage, Mac Mail, Eudora, etc. (i.e. installed software on your computer, not web services like Gmail, AOL or Yahoo, which may work, but probably not). To setup your mail program to retrieve Hotmail messages follow the procedures listed below (also listed on Hotmail's Help page).
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Install a free Microsoft download called the Outlook Hotmail Connector. The Connector is a quick download via high-speed Internet (3.2 Mb) and takes only a few seconds to setup. Simply enter your name, Hotmail password, and preferred name to appear on emails in the wizard that pops up when you first launch Outlook after installing the Connector. After restarting Outlook it should immediately retrieve your MU Hotmail messages.
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Install the free Microsoft Live Mail client. Microsoft makes this download available to any PC user. Use it to retrieve messages from either Hotmail or several other web-based email programs (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.).
Email Settings for Mounties Outlook Live
Note: settings below apply to Outlook, but are similar for other client e-mail programs (e.g. Thunderbird, Entourage, etc.)
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Click Tools menu, E-mail Accounts
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Click Add a new e-mail account, and then click Next
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Click POP3, and then click Next
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Enter the following information:
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Under User Information, type your name and Windows Live Hotmail (Mounties) e-mail address
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Under Server Information, in the Incoming mail server (POP3) box, type pop3.live.com
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Under Server Information, in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) box, type smtp.live.com
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Under Logon Information, in the User Name box, type your Hotmail e-mail address
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In the Password box, type your password
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Clear the Remember password check box unless you're the only person with access to the computer
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Make sure that the Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) check box is NOT selected.
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Click More settings
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On the Outgoing Server tab, select the option, My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and Use same settings as my incoming mail server
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On the Advanced tab, under Server Port Numbers, enter the following information, and then click OK:
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In the Incoming server (POP3) box, type 995
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In the Outgoing server (SMTP) box, type 25
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Under both Incoming server (POP3) and Outgoing server (SMTP), select the This server requires an encrypted connection (auto) check boxes
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