I have been experimenting with Windows Live Mail in order to have a complete back up of my entire outlook.com email folders (including Sent, Inbox and Deleted folders ) and also in order to read and compose my email offline sometimes.

I tried to use an approach that involved me synchronizing with a server on https. I think it was a "hotmail" option that was offered when I set up the account in Windows Live Mail. It started to synchronize  the existing folders successfully and I was able to receive and send a couple of emails but then I encountered this error.

"Unable to send or receive messages for [ ] account
Server Error 4201
Server https://mail.services.com/DataSync_v2.0.0/Sync.aspx
Windows Live Mail Error ID 0x8DE00002"

I think I will go back and try to re-configure the email account in Windows Live Mail by specifying IMAP and smtp servers since (a) I don't really understand what that https option was doing and (b) in the end I got that error anyway.

I understand also that at some point Microsoft may be moving my outlook.com to another server like maybe an exchange server?

Given the information above, does anyone have advice on the best way to configure Windows Live Mail for an Outlook.com account?