How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Mac OS X Mail

Web access to Windows Live Hotmail account is incredible, however you may favor the power and adaptability of Apple's worked in Mac OS X Mail application. Utilizing this instructional exercise, you can figure out how to download Windows Live Hotmail messages to your Mac, through either an IMAP or POP3 association.

What are IMAP and POP3 Connections?

Both IMAP and POP3 are web conventions utilized by email customers to speak with your email benefit. When setting up your email physically inside an application, for example, Mac OS X Mail, you are given the choice to choose one of the two conventions for correspondence.

IMAP is an increasingly present day arrangement, and our suggestion, when setting up your mail benefit with an email customer, while POP3 is a more established standard. Not at all like POP3, IMAP is intended to keep your email in synchronization, implying that when you see a message in Mac OS X Mail, it is set apart as read on the email server.

Access Windows Live Hotmail with IMAP

Designing your Mac OS X Mail application to interface with your Windows Live Hotmail account with IMAP is our best proposal. Pursue the means beneath to physically arrange Mail to work with your Microsoft account:

Select Mail > Add Account... from the menu in the Mail application.

Select Other Mail Account.. also, click Continue.

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Ensure that your name is entered accurately under the Name field.

Enter your Windows Live Hotmail email address under the Email Address field.

Enter your Windows Live Hotmail secret phrase under the Password field.

In the event that you have two-advance confirmation empowered for your Windows Live Hotmail account, you should make an application secret word for macOS Mail and use it.

Snap Sign In.

Guarantee that Mail is checked under Select the applications you need to use with this record: choice.

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You can empower Notes also to have the Notes application synchronize notes utilizing your Windows Live Hotmail account.

Snap Done.

Access Windows Live Hotmail with POP3

We exceedingly suggest setting up your Windows Live Hotmail account with the IMAP steps noted above; be that as it may, you can adhere to these directions on the off chance that you have an explicit purpose behind needing to use POP3:

You will initially need to empower POP access for your Windows Live Hotmail account.

Visit www.outlook.com and sign in with your email address and secret word.

Select Settings (equip symbol) > View all Outlook settings > Email > Sync Email.

Under Let gadgets and applications utilize POP select Yes.

Snap Save.

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Open the Mac OS X Mail application.

Select Mail > Add Account... from the menu in the Mail application.

Select Other Mail Account.. what's more, click Continue.

Ensure that your name is entered accurately under the Name field.

Enter a phony email address under the Email Address field.

Leave the User Name field clear.

Enter a phony secret phrase under the Password field.

For instance, You may enter email@fakewebsite.com for the email address field and password123 for the secret phrase field.

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The Mail application will acknowledge it can't consequently set up your email address as it is phony, and therefore will incite for progressively itemized data.

Eradicate the present esteem and enter your Windows Live Hotmail email address under the Email Address field.

Eradicate the present esteem and enter your Windows Live Hotmail secret phrase under the Password field.

Under Account Type, select POP.

For Incoming Mail Server, enter pop-mail.outlook.com.

For Outgoing Mail Server, enter smtp-mail.outlook.com.

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Snap Sign In.

Manual IMAP Connection Settings

On the off chance that for any reason Mac OS X Mail prompts you to physically enter your IMAP server data, like how we enter POP3 data, you can utilize this data as required for the setup procedure:

Approaching Mail Server: imap-mail.outlook.com

Approaching Mail Server Port: 993

Approaching Mail Server Encryption: TLS

Active Mail Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com

Active Mail Server Port: 587

Active Mail Server Encryption: STARTTLS

POP3 Connection Settings:

If necessary for any reason, here are all POP3 association settings completely:

Approaching Mail Server: pop-mail.outlook.com

Approaching Mail Server Port: 995

Approaching Mail Server Encryption: TLS

Active Mail Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com

Active Mail Server Port: 587

Active Mail Server Encryption: STARTTLS

MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, and Outlook.com 

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You may have seen that our approaching and active mail servers use outlook.com as the hotspot for getting and sending letters. In the event that you have a Windows Live Hotmail account, this may appear somewhat befuddling. Also, on the off chance that despite everything you use a MSN Hotmail account, you may ponder what the distinctions are between each administration.

MSN Hotmail was the primary variant of Microsoft's email benefit, trailed by Windows Live Hotmail, lastly Outlook.com. While you may keep up a more established email address with a @msn.com, @hotmail.com, or @live.com goal, all mail experiences the most recent emphasis, Outlook.com.