Q: How to add an hotmail account to Mail ?

it is still setting the account up as an IMAP account....I'll try that XXX trick to see if it gives me some manual options

Take a look at my post again.

Okay, you did!

Thanks very much Peter....that seems to have done the trick!

blackknife wrote:

 

nce I enter the info this is the next thing I get:

See the button marked Create? Press the option key and it will change to say Continue, all parameters may be entered manually in Continue mode, automatically when in Create mode.

How long have you been using a Mac?

since a blueberry iMac 8.6...why?

You seem uncertain regarding secondary commands.

There is (was) no need to enter fake data, manual entry does not need it.

But if it's working .....

well I'm so sorry if we can't all be as educated and as proper as you

Good bye.

oh, absolutely....

Good God I don't get why it's so impossible to make iMail work with hotmail....all of a sudden iMail won't "keep" or accept any of my hotmail passwords, and I know they're correct.  Does anyone have any newer advice for how to fix this?  I cleared out all my outlook/hotmail PW's with keychain, and still no workie.

First ios7, then these new hotmail errors...Apple, or someone reading this, PLEASE help!  Does anyone know the "correct" account settings to make imail play nice with hotmail?

Thanks a ton!!!

Start your own thread, detail your own problem, then you can get your own answers

Thanks a lot.  Pardon my post from last night - was out of pure frustration.  Here's the new link.  Thanks!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6229960

Works like a charm,....Thanks

What you need to do is click on add another account and do not specify one then just put in your "example@hotmail.com" email and your password and should add automatically it worked for me on my MacBook Pro running 10.10 Yosemite.