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New PC with Windows 10 - setting up a POP3
18-12-2015 2:58 PM
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I have a Plusnet email address and so I will need to configure the settings on Windows 10 as a POP3 email account.
There's nothing I can find on Plusnet's website in relation to Email Guides for Windows 10, so I have the following questions if anyone's able to help out:
1. Will I need to tick the following boxes
a) Outgoing server requires authentication
b) Use the same password for sending email
c) Require SSL for incoming mail
d) Require SSL for outgoing mail
2. I would really like to copy the emails and contacts from my Windows 7 PC to the new Windows 10 PC when it arrives. From what I've been able to find out, this seems to be a complicated process. Does anyone have any guide or instruction on how I can do this?
Thanks
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18-12-2015 3:00 PM
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18-12-2015 3:09 PM
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18-12-2015 3:19 PM
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a - no
b - password not required for sending just for receiving
c - no
d - no
and if you can advise which email client you use we may be able to advise on migrating the emails
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18-12-2015 3:42 PM
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I currently using Windows Live Mail on my Windows 7 PC. I want to be able to back up the emails (Inbox, Sent Items and Contacts) from that system and copy them into the Windows 10 PC email client.
From what I've read, there are conflicting articles about whether the email client in Windows 10 supports Windows Live Mail . . . . hence my concern.
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19-12-2015 1:00 PM
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Thanks
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19-12-2015 1:09 PM
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Then you can use MozBackup to backup all the emails to a file you can transfer over to the new PC. If you use Firefox it will also backup all Firefox bookmarks, passwords etc etc .
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19-12-2015 1:20 PM
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The problem comes with trying to install Windows Live Mail on Win 10 - sometimes it works but often it doesn't - so you may need to use the email app and that doesn't support import as far as I can tell so you may need to persevere in trying to get live mail to install
The only way round it appears to be via Outlook.com http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook/import-desktop-app which essentially puts everything on MS Servers but as suggested above look at using Thunderbird
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19-12-2015 2:16 PM
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I wouldn't be averse to using Outlook . . . . presumably that software is still part of Microsoft Office and I should at least be able to configure a POP3 email account in that for my Plusnet email address; is that correct?
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19-12-2015 2:20 PM
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Having said that - if you have Office then using that version of Outlook is a much better bet
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19-12-2015 2:49 PM
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That being the case, do you think there's any way I would be able to copy Inbox, Sent Items and Contacts from Windows Live Mail on Windows 7 to the equivalent Outlook folders on Windows 10, or would the files be totally incompatible?
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19-12-2015 2:58 PM
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