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Guide to setting up Hexamail Flow on Windows
How to setup Hexamail Flow on Windows
This is a guide to setting up Hexamail Flow on a Windows machine.
Let's break the guide into some easy steps:
Preparing
You will need:
- a computer with plenty of disk space (>2GB) for storing email
- a 64bit or 32bit Windows operating system (Anything over Windows XP is still supported!)
- a permanent/reliable connection to the Internet
- an email account on a mailserver or email provider such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Livemail, Office365 etc
- [Optional] an online calendar account such as Office 365, Google Calendar, CALDAV, Memotoo, Fruux etc
- [Optional] an online contacts account such as Google Contacts, CARDDAV, Memotoo, Fruux etc
Prerequisites
You will need:
- Administrator access or access allowing installation of software onto your computer
Installing
Next you need to download the required software and copy it to your chosen computer.
1) Download Hexamail Flow and save the installer exe file and license on the computer
2) Run the hexamailflowsetupN.N.N.NNN.exe file by double clicking on it. if you are on a 64bit system you should download the 64bit version called hexamailflowsetupN.N.N.NNN_64.exe
3) If prompted (64bit) you should install both the Administration console and Windows service
4) You can choose the installation folder at this point
5) The installer copies the necessary files and creates the Windows app
6) Once it has finished installing files it will automatically open the configuration wizard and you can begin setting up Hexamail Flow