How To Use Your Hotmail / Live Account With Apple Mail app in OS X.

How To Use Your Hotmail With Apple Mail app in OS X.

2 April 2009 by Vinay 40 Comments

Mail.app or Apple Mail is an e-mail client included with Mac OS X operating system. Apple Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, and supports MobileMe and Exchange via IMAP. Both the iPhone and the iPod touch included a mobile version of Apple Mail. Mail.app offers Notes and To-dos which can be synced with iCal and it also introduced a built-in RSS reader. Mail for Leopard features more than 30 professionally designed stationery templates that make a virtual keepsake out of every email you send. Mail works with the most popular email providers, like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail, automatically configuring those cryptic server settings for you for hotmail you have to do a small work. Here we have a simple to follow guide for the users who wants to use their Hotmail or Windows Live account with Mail.app

First of all Launch Apple mail >>> Then type you name where it asks you to
Then where it asks you to Put your email address Enter in in this format

Example@live.com Example@hotmail.com

And then put in your password
Then click Continue and on the next page enter this info

Account Type : POP
Description : Windows Live
Incoming Mail Server : pop3.live.com
Username : Example@live.com Example@hotmail.com
Password : Put your password Here

Then Click the Continue Button >>> Then on the next page enter this info

Description : Windows Live
Outgoing Mail Server : smtp.live.com
Click the “Use Authentication” Box
Username : Example@live.com Example@hotmail.com
Password : Put your password Here

Click Continue and your done After that click the get mail button and all will work.

40 Comments »

Andreas said:

I would like to use hotmail in the Mail application of my macbookpro but with all folders for email organization. With POP I can only send and receive emails. Is this possible at all? I tried the plugin httpmail 1.53 but nothing works. Please help!

For some reason this feature actually works on my iphone using mbox mail. Why not on my macbook?

# 3 May 2009 at 8:56 pm

Mike McGee said:

Thank you,

This solved all of my questions about hotmail/windows live/quest mail

You are the BEST!

Sincerely,

Mike McGee

# 3 June 2009 at 3:18 am

Dick Kriss said:

I just gave my daughter a G4 iBook that has OS X 10.5.7 and the
latest version of Apple’s mail. She has it set up to do mail via
her comcast.net address ….. that is her ISP. She really does not
use the @comcast.net address. She uses her hotmail address and
I think she may have the premium version as she has extra
storage. How can she setup up her Apple Mail to use her hotmail
account. I have heard there are problems using plugins.

Any help will be appreciated

Dick

# 8 June 2009 at 3:08 am

Cristian said:

thank you so much, I was trying to get my hotmail email account working on Apple mail, but I wasn’t able to do it until now.

Thanks for the help ^^

# 22 June 2009 at 1:56 am

Veronica said:

thank you so much.
since i updated to 10.5.7 version i was struggling to find the right httpmail version and the correct instructions to setup my hotmail account on Mail again…

you saved me a lot or reading!
thanks

# 2 July 2009 at 7:18 am

matt mcewen said:

Thanks .. worked instantly!

# 2 July 2009 at 8:34 pm

Tony said:

Thanks !!!!!… this helped alot. Now if only Hotmail/Live would go to IMAP

# 3 July 2009 at 12:23 pm

andres said:

Thanks, easy way to solve the problem. Without the use of other apps.

# 4 August 2009 at 6:13 am

dancingboi said:

Thank you so much i have tried a few fixes but none have worked. Your a life saver because now i don’t have to get on safari… not that much work but takes a lot of work out.. thank you

# 4 August 2009 at 10:19 am

nick said:

it seems to work but its super super slow…I had to put SSL (which puts port 995 automatically),in order to work since otherwise it put port 110 automaticallly and didn’t work… not sure if that is the issue. Anyone dealt with this? thank you

# 12 August 2009 at 4:27 pm

Kris said:

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 13 August 2009 at 11:07 pm

Brian said:

Thanks. This worked seamlessly in coordinating my apple Mail and hotmail account. Very simple and easy.

# 27 August 2009 at 11:12 am

Sinan said:

Ah…om….. Its not working

It doesn’t give me an error and its added to my other mailboxes,
But it does not pull down any emails?
I have a hotmail plus account which works fine with outlook on my pc

Any Ideas why its not working for me??
Thanks

# 30 August 2009 at 8:21 pm

Jose said:

¡Amazing!

It works pretty good, thanks a lot and thanks to Daniel as well for many years of Hotmail on Mail App.

Any idea how to make it download the extra folders? It works excellent for me, but it doesn’t downloads all my extra folders.

I’ll appreciate any help at biblische@hotmail.com

Long live to Hotmail/Mail app.

Jose

# 2 September 2009 at 8:23 pm

daniela said:

hi there,
I have been using Mail program in combination with my hotmail emails on my Mac for a few years now. Over the past week, emails no longer transfer from my hotmail account to mail. The only message I get is a traingle with a little ! indicating emails cant transfer. Any ideas how can i resolve the problem?? I really dont know what can I do!!
Thanks in advance, Daniela

# 6 September 2009 at 10:39 pm

Shuttle said:

Managed to work it out, seems like a bad email in my hotmail in box. Simply went in through web browser and deleted it and all is working fine now.

Hope that may help others.

# 8 September 2009 at 6:30 am

Charlotte said:

Thanks – I’m amazed it’s that easy! This is hotmail, isn’t it?

Anyway, your post was really helpful.

# 14 September 2009 at 7:50 pm

MIKE said:

Does anyone know why when we synced our macbook mail account with our hotmail account the emails went over to mail but have now vanished from our hotmail account.. we need access to the old emails from 2 locations and so need them to remain on the hotmail account.

Any ideas??

# 17 September 2009 at 4:34 pm

Ian said:

Hi
I have just upgraded to snow leopard and I cant get hotmail to work with apple mail

I tried the above but it no longer works

Anyone else had this problem ?

# 20 September 2009 at 9:04 pm

Shuttle said:

As per my previous post, this techniquie does work in snow leopard. I am running the same os and had no problems. Can you detail what happens when you try to set it up?

# 24 September 2009 at 6:34 am

June Dale said:

thanks..

# 26 September 2009 at 1:59 pm

Mike said:

It works fine!!

One thing though. It wants to fetch all my e-mails, approx. 8,000, from hotmail. How do I tell it not to?

BR / Mike

# 30 September 2009 at 1:32 am

chealive said:

good job!!!

thanks.

# 7 October 2009 at 10:29 pm

Nate said:

Thanks a lot! I’ve been trying to figure out how to get this to work for the longest time, didn’t think it was possible. Makes life a lot easier for me with my officelive mail accounts. Very clear, very good.

# 13 October 2009 at 10:30 am

the Carpenter said:

Thanks A lot For help .. . U r the best

# 15 October 2009 at 7:08 pm

Kat said:

I don’t know why, but for me, the pop3.live.com won’t work (

# 10 November 2009 at 10:11 pm

Mark said:

I would like to use hotmail in the Mail application of my macbookpro but with all folders for email organization. With POP I can only send and receive emails. I want to have my mail folders and contacts. Also If i erase an email from Mac Doesn’t erase from Hotmail… What Should i do????

Thank you in Advance

# 5 December 2009 at 10:46 pm

Prisca said:

Thank you so much! This information solved all of my problems with setting up Mail.

# 29 December 2009 at 2:15 am

Jason Sexton said:

I am trying to download and sync my files on my yahoo account with my macbook mail program can this be done?

# 10 February 2010 at 9:42 pm

MingHui said:

OMG!! Thank you very much for this tip ^^

after apply this tip, finally, i can use Mail to send and receive my Hotmail account.

# 4 March 2010 at 12:17 pm

Peter said:

Thanks for the tip but it doesn’t however work on my email address, with snow leopard on my imac. Have searched the web for hours but can’t find a working solution. I’m sure there are many people who have the same problem, what do you expects from a free email account? Hotmail…

# 9 March 2010 at 10:39 am

Alexandre said:

Great post: clean, simple and very easy to follow!
Your tip works fine!
Good job!

# 16 March 2010 at 7:12 am

Kez said:

Adds account ok and authenticates servers fine but when I press get mail, I see “downloading message 4219 of 4219″ briefly then it stops and my inbox remains empty. I am running 10.6.2.

# 29 March 2010 at 6:57 am

Melba said:

I have set up my hot mail account and can see incoming new mail but am unable to send mail using the mail stamp. Could you advise me on how to solve this problem

# 2 April 2010 at 3:17 am

luvmena said:

Thank you so much!

# 11 April 2010 at 6:15 am

andres said:

Hey mate doing my best to follow your instructions but for some reason it keeps saying the the password I’m typing in to access my mail through hotmail via apple mail is not right.

# 12 May 2010 at 2:39 pm

David said:

Doesn’t work for me on a MacBook Air with latest version of Snow Leopard – same problem as many of the other guys. Sets up the mailbox fine but keeps asking for the password – which I know is typed in correctly. Bizarre thing is – every so often it WILL download 5 or 6 mails – its intermittent… AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!

# 27 May 2010 at 12:07 am

Matthew said:

Mail worked really well with hotmail until 6th June when it stopped downloading new messages, although it continued working well with Gmail and a couple of times it hasn’t sent messages even though they were in the sent messages folder. this program for me is a waste of time and luckily I’m running windows 7 in parallel were I don’t get these problems with outlook.

# 20 July 2010 at 10:11 am

Alex said:

I just asked my Mac Mail to “get new mail” from my hotmail account.
I really still use the hotmail account and have been playing around with the Mac Mail feature (it’s a new macbook)
It was in sync for a while and then all of a sudden today when I said “get new mail” all the email in my hotmail account disappeared. Please tell me there is a way to get it back into hotmail??

# 20 March 2011 at 10:00 pm