Outlook Web Access Server : m.ĥ- then click “Continue”, and if you get an error-message, just click “Continue” againĦ- in the next window put a check-mark in front of “Use SSL”, set Authentication to “Password” and click “Continue” againħ- in the next window, use these settings :ĭescription : Hotmail SMTP ( or anything you like ) Outlook Web Access Server : m.ĭescription : IMAP ( or if you perfer your eMail-address, make sure to add “IMAP” or something like that to it, else it will conflict with your previously set-up POP )ĭescription : Outlook IMAP ( or if you perfer your eMail-address, make sure to add “IMAP” or something like that to it, else it will conflict with your previously set-up POP ) ) and leave the Password blank, then click on CreateĤ- in the next window, set the Account Type to “Exchange IMAP” (only if you don’t have that option choose “IMAP”) and use the following info, depending on what eMail-address you have :ĭescription : Hotmail IMAP ( or if you perfer your eMail-address, make sure to add “IMAP” or something like that to it, else it will conflict with your previously set-up Hotmail POP ) ( if you are on OSX 10.9 Mavericks, read this first )ġ- in OSX Mail.app, go to Preferences, then to Accounts and (if you have one) select your current POP-setup for Hotmail/Live/Outlook from the list, then go to the Account Information tab, and there un-check the “Enable this account” optionĢ- then use the Plus-button (bottom left) to add a new accountģ- in the pulldown-window “Add Account” that appears, fill in your Full Name, type a fake eMail address ( e.g. If you follow these steps, you will be able to succeed anyway : Note : instructions for setting-up Hotmail/Live/Outlook-eMail on iPhone/iPad can be found here.

The tricky part is that MacOSX will automatically set-up a POP-account if you are setting up a new account in Mail.app using a, or eMail-address. Setting it up in MacOSX is not as straight forward as one might have hoped however… Yes, you’re correct : IMAP eMail has finally come to, and eMail.

Recently I heard that Microsoft is finally allowing IMAP access to eMail, but I can’t figure out how to set it up on my Mac… I’ve always though it was extremely annoying that Microsoft only allowed POP eMail for for MacOSX, but I kept my Hotmail-account alive for al these years since I actually liked it, even after I switched to Mac…

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