How to Add MSN Account to iPhone
Effortless ‘msn account’ settings
Setting up an ‘msn account’ on the iphone is not a tedious job but becomes one when the steps to follow are unclear. Same situation arises with Outlook/Hotmail or live account configuration in iphone.
For now, if any trouble is faced while getting msn account registered; few easy steps can be trusted upon which are mentioned below:
- Go to settings. Immediately select ‘Mail, Contacts and Calendars’.
- ‘Account’ option on clicking will allow one to ‘add account’. Do so and confirm the type of account* to be added. In this case, select ‘other’. *Select Microsoft exchange only if a work account is needed.
- Select ‘Add Mail Account’ and fill the credentials viz. name, email, password and description on the new account screen.
- Select ‘NO’ on the pop-up message which says that”Cannot connect using SSL. Do you want to try setting up the account without SSL?”
- Choose pop3 under incoming mail server and fill up spaces as following:
- Hostname: pop3.live.com
- Username: email
- Password: your email-password
- Under outgoing mail server (SMTP) enter following:
- Hostname: smtp.live.com
- Username: email
- Password: your email-password
- Select ‘Save’ and enter all inputs manually to see following advance settings:
After completing above 7 steps, restart the phone. For further assistance, MSN technical support number can prove largely faithful.
