Lesson 1: Configuring Windows Mail

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The list above is not exhaustive but includes almost all the important options. As a part of your

studies, you should familiarize yourself with the Options dialog box so that you can see the

full range of configuration settings that you can make in Windows Mail. The Options dialog

box of Windows Mail is explored in more detail in Practice 1 at the end of this lesson.

Offline mode allows you to use Windows Mail without worrying about its attempting to syn-

chronize. When you click Send on an e-mail, Windows Mail places the message in the outbox

and does not forward it to the outgoing mail server until offline mode is disabled. You can

enable and disable offline mode by choosing Work Offline on Windows Mail’s File menu. If

you click Send/Receive when Windows Mail is set to offline mode, you will be asked whether

you would like to go online and perform synchronization.

Multiple Accounts and Advanced E-mail Account Settings

You can configure Windows Mail to receive e-mail from multiple e-mail accounts. To add an

extra account, open the Internet Accounts dialog box from the Tools menu, click Add, and

then click E-Mail Account. The setup process is the same as it is for the initial account config-

uration when you start Windows Mail.

Editing account properties allows you to configure advanced settings. It also allows you to rec-

tify any mistakes that you might have made in the original configuration, such as the wrong

outgoing server address or incoming server mail protocol. The Connection tab on a particular

account’s Properties dialog box allows you to specify what type of connection to make when

synchronizing this particular account. This is very useful if an e-mail account can be accessed

only over a virtual private network (VPN) connection, which is a special type of Internet con-

nection that is often used to connect remotely to corporate networks. You use this setting only

if an account requires a connection method different from the one specified in the Connec-

tions tab of Internet Explorer’s Internet Options dialog box.

Windows Mail supports the use of signing certificates. Signing certificates are used to verify

the identity of a sender. It is also possible if you have an appropriate certificate installed to

encrypt messages to protect them. These types of certificates are usually implemented only in

business environments, so although you should be aware of their functionality, they are

unlikely to be covered in detail by the 70-620 exam.

The Advanced tab of an e-mail account’s properties, shown in Figure 9-2, allows you to con-

figure the e-mail account to use nonstandard ports, configure timeouts, leave messages on the

server, and to break apart messages that are larger than a certain size into smaller parts. Con-

figuring timeouts is useful when you are connected through a slow link when synchronizing

mail. Leaving a copy of messages on the server is helpful when you check e-mail in multiple

locations. For example, say that you have a POP3 account and you check your work e-mail

account from home. In the Advanced tab of the e-mail account Properties dialog box on your

Windows Vista computer, you can ensure that any message you read at home can be later