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How to Make Windows Live Mail the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client

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    Below are step by step instructions on how to setup Windows Live Mail to be the ultimate Gmail IMAP client.

    There are 15 steps in total and shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete.

    Using these settings in Windows Live Mail (WLM) will give you an amazing IMAP configuration that’s fast, reliable and easy to use.

    If you are currently unsure which client you want to use then check out this post on why Windows Live Mail (WLM) is the best IMAP client to use with Gmail.

    Windows live mail is free and can be downloaded here.

    Once you have installed the programme and run it for the first time work through this setup list in order:

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    The Best IMAP Client for Gmail is Windows Live Mail

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      We use Gmail and it’s IMAP functionality for our emails and we also recommend it to our smaller clients who don’t use or have a need for an enterprise mail solution. Why? Because Gmail rocks.

      NB: If you are looking for help setting up WLM you can view step by step instructions in the How to Make Windows Live Mail the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client post.

      Along with everyone else who uses IMAP we’ve tried just about every client out there in search of the perfect solution.

      It’s an extremely frustrating process to work through the forum, tutorials and discussions of those who have tried before and peice together their guides in order to avoid encountering the nuances of each client that they discovered.

      Before getting to the things about WLM that we love here’s why we just can’t use Thunderbird or Outlook:

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      Why Gmail Rocks

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        Email hosts are either very expensive or completely unreliable so neither option suits us or our smaller clients who don’t have a requirement for an inhouse enterprise solution.

        It’s also a lot of fun when Microsoft Exchange encounters a problem or you have an outage at your datacenter and every single client’s emails stop working all at once. Calls and emails flood in, work stops while you deal with a emergency situation and no one expects to pay for a technical issue being resolved.

        I also think exchange is also very overpriced, a misuse of time to setup and maintain on the server and far too complicated to make setting up on a local client fun for anyone.

        Just some of the reasons why Gmail rocks:

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