Davlem

Q: How to add an hotmail account to Mail ?

Hello everyone,

 

I'm having problems to add my hotmail account to mail. I don't know what's the reason but I had set up that acocunt in my macbook but It was no longer available after upgrading Mavericks 10.9.

 

 

I have tried to set up from:

 

1. Mail> Mailbox> New mailbox

2. Adding from the ''+'' buttom

3. Mail settings (cmd+ ; = setting)

4. System Preferences > Internet accounts 

 

 

Nothings happens, I have others account like ''gmail'' ''Icloud'' '' Yahoo'' And there's no problem with any of them

 

The error that appear is this

 

 

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4781/6pze.png

 

Thank you for all your help

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 1:06 PM

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  • by teharatats,

    teharatats teharatats Jun 17, 2015 3:41 PM in response to Davlem
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    Jun 17, 2015 3:41 PM in response to Davlem

    If you have activated two-step verification security for your MS account (includes mail) - you need to go to https://account.live.com/proofs/AppPassword and use the unique password generated there, not your email password - and you must regenerate a distinct number for every device you access hotmail with - this worked for me after frustrating hours .... it's not made plain anywhere at MS.

  • by miss_clumsy,

    miss_clumsy miss_clumsy Aug 29, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Mojoscream
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    Aug 29, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Mojoscream

    Check out the video, it's very well explained and if you follow every steps, your Hotmail account will work on Apple Mail!

     

    Thanks Mojoscream! Problem solved

  • by hunnara,

    hunnara hunnara Aug 31, 2015 2:03 AM in response to teharatats
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    Aug 31, 2015 2:03 AM in response to teharatats

    You can check about Hotmail sign in http://ow.ly/Rzwxu

  • by PaoloAdami,

    PaoloAdami PaoloAdami Dec 23, 2015 7:24 AM in response to Mojoscream
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    Dec 23, 2015 7:24 AM in response to Mojoscream

    Thank you, your advice helped me to fix the problem of adding HOTMAIL account to Mail.

    No need to go to "other mail": use OUTLOOK option try to login and it will fail. At this point 2 new fields appear: "Internal URL" and "External URL".

     

    Enter "incoming: imap-mail.outlook.com" in the "Internal URL" field

    Enter "outgoing: smtp-mail.outlook.com" in the "External URL" field


    Now it works

  • by Fouad Abbasi,

    Fouad Abbasi Fouad Abbasi Feb 1, 2016 8:56 AM in response to teharatats
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    Feb 1, 2016 8:56 AM in response to teharatats

    OMG thank you so much for this link

    Works!!!

  • by MMM.3,

    MMM.3 MMM.3 May 31, 2016 1:33 AM in response to Davlem
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    May 31, 2016 1:33 AM in response to Davlem

    Make sure that before you add the new hotmail account you remove/delete any previous versions you may have by going to Mail -> Accounts and removing any old hotmail inboxes by highlighting and clicking on the "-" sign which will remove them. Once this this done, then you can go ahead and add the new hotmail account by following the steps as described here.

  • by dcrivea,

    dcrivea dcrivea Aug 27, 2016 8:02 AM in response to Csound1
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    Aug 27, 2016 8:02 AM in response to Csound1

    Where is the option tab

    it tells me account already excists

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Aug 27, 2016 8:18 AM in response to dcrivea
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    Aug 27, 2016 8:18 AM in response to dcrivea

    You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

     

    Try Mail/Preferences/Accounts /Account Information. Select an account, then go to Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP). From the drop down menu select Edit SMPT server list. See if the account is listed there. If so, delete the SMTP server for the account. Try to add the Mail account again.

     

    You can also check System Preferences/Internet Accounts to see if the account is there.

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