How to add a second email account in Windows Live Mail
As you may already know from a previous tutorial, you can setup an email account in Windows Live Mail: but what if you have a second email account you want to check from within Windows Live Mail as well? Fortunately, you can add another email account (and a third, fourth...) to the mix! In this tutorial, we will show you how to add a new email account inside Windows Live Mail, and explain how the process will work (will all your emails be mixed together, etc.)
Add another email account in Windows Live Mail
Follow these steps to add new email accounts:
- Start by opening Windows Live Mail, if needed.
- There are now two ways to add another email account; look at the bottom left corner of the main window, and you will see a few icons. Right above them is a "Add e-mail account" link: all you need to do is click!
- As soon as you do, Windows Live Mail will open the "Add an E-mail Account" wizard, which will guide you through the steps of configuring another email account. (This process is discussed in details in our "Setup email accounts" tutorial.)
- Another way in which you can add a second email address to your Windows Live Mail arsenal is to press the Alt key on your keyboard to show the menus, and then select the Tools menu. Finally, choose "Accounts" to open the listing of newsgroups and email accounts you have already added, and click on the "Add" button. This will open the same wizard mentioned above.
Both methods achieve the same effect, and once you have completed the setup process, you will be ready to use your other email address from within Windows Live Mail!
How can you check multiple email accounts from Windows Live Mail?
You may be hesitant to add another email account in Windows Live Mail, thinking that all your email messages will be mixed up between accounts: this is not the case. Windows Live Mail will create a separate inbox and group of standard email folders for each email address you have setup. You can manually move emails between folders if you want to, but by default, Windows Live Mail will keep your emails organized by email account.