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Why won't Outlook 2010 connect to the server?

I typed the right incoming mail server for hotmail. pop3.live.com and the outgoing server is smtp.live.com so why won't it connect?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Make sure you've selected that the server requires ssl encryption.

    Make sure your username and password is correct.

    Make sure the outgoing server settings is also set to use authentication

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