Bought a new Macbook Pro Today. I tried setting up my new @outlook.com email address in the Apple Mail System. I cant get it to work. This is not an exchange account, just the new @outlook instead of @hotmail.
Any Advice?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), It's actually the new 10.8.4 System
Hey Aquaftm45,
Usually Mail can automatically get the email account settings for many email service providers. It sounds like you might have already done this, but just in case try the following steps to see if it works:
If Mail cannot configure automatically by following those steps, continue with this article:
Configuring Mail for your email account
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1277
I'll go over manually configuring Mail to work with your email address. You might need to get some information from your email service provider by using the cheat sheet you'll see in the article.
All the best,
David
Hi Aquaftm and David,
I have the same problem here and it seems that the problem is the server and door provided. However, I used the same server and door indicated by the mac assistent.
I am also having problems with syncronizing my @outlook and @hotmail calendar to the mac calendar.
Simone
Simonevm wrote:
Hi Aquaftm and David,
I have the same problem here and it seems that the problem is the server and door provided. However, I used the same server and door indicated by the mac assistent.
Tell us what that server is please.
Open Mail, Contacts and Calendars (in System Preferences), click Other as the account type, select Mail Account and enter your email address (in full) and your password in the fields provided, then press continue.
This worked for me. Intuitively, you would think one should choose Outlook.com as the account type, but Other is the choice that works. Thanks!
I'm still having problems too. I tried both inside Mail and adding account, and sys prefs/add mail acct.
1)Mail app results:
The outlook.com POP server “imap-mail.outlook.com” is not responding. Try checking the network connection, and that the server name is correct. Otherwise, the server might be temporarily unavailable. If you continue, you might not be able to receive messages.
2)Sys pref's results:
The sys prefs/add mail acct-it tries to "contact server" for a long time, then results are:
The Mail server “outlook.com” is not responding. Try checking the network connection, and that the server name is correct. Otherwise, the server might be temporarily unavailable.
3)re Delgado's what to do above, I cannot ever get to the window for putting in all manually, it only wants to auto-find and add. I see no check box to stop this as it's stated above in link: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1277
where it says: "4. Deselect "Automatically set up account" if it is enabled. Click Continue to proceed." I see NO box to deselect.
I appreciate any other ideas!
P.S. I can get and send mail from other type accounts like Gmail and Yahoo without any problems. It's only outlook.com trying to get my Mac Mail to get my mail from outlook. I can also go to web browser and sign in to outlook.com without any problems on same computer. so it's some prob with mac mail settings for outlook.
I GOT IT! (After prayer! 🙂) How:
-Went into System Prefs/Mail, Contacts & Calendars/ on right side scrolled down to Add Other Account/chose Add a Mail Account/clicked create/signed in, waited, then when it gave same error, his CONTINUE, and THERE was the place to input server settings my self FINALLY 😉. I then noticed it did have POP at top as type, but under the INCOMING (pop) server it had the WRONG one: imap-mail.outlook.com-- then I changed it to this:
pop3.live.com
....and confirmed the next window (after hitting CONTINUE) showed SMTP as: smtp.live.com
and then it WORKED!
...had to put in password when getting mail first time, but it stuck and works.
I only wonder why the auto settings puts in that wrong imap/outlook.com one instead of newest. I wonder if someone at Apple can make it auto put in correct one for outlook users?
Anyway, so greatful this works now! I hope it helps someone else too!
Thank you! I was having this problem also. Worked like a charm. 🙂
Hi everyone,
I just have to discover this,
- first you have to access in to you outlook account via web browser browser browser go preference and deactivate Connect devices and apps with POP (this will shut off the pop3 acces, its very primitive) and then,
- Went into System Mail to Add Other Account; chose Add a Mail Account; click create; signed in, waited, then when it gave an error, at this time it will ask if you want to do a manual configuration; say yes and Use the following settings:
Incoming (IMAP) Server
Server address: imap-mail.outlook.com
Port: 993
Encrypted Connection: SSL
Outgoing (SMTP) Server
Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
Authentication: Yes
Encrypted Connection: TLS
User name: Your email address
Password: Your password
it works!!!! finally imap on my outlook account
That is an absurd method.
Select account type 'Other', enter the Outlook.com settings manually.
That's it, no messing around on the site and no waiting for errors.
Did you actually think that there was no manual entry method, what did you think the 'Other' account was for.
Hello all
Re Adding outlook to your Mac/Setting up outlood on your mac
I am a not techie simple user and want to share my experience.
I have a mac book pro with microsoft office.
I could not add an email account to microsoft so that I could put in the incoming and outgoing details provided
by my ISP
the outlook software simpley froze/stopped/ the expected window did not appear
after 2 days of trying and reading blogs and forumns I found a message to update the software on
your machine from microsoft.
I bought my mac 2nd hand 1 year old on Ebay. Even though the microsoft s/w was widows 2011 it was not the latest with all the patches and updates.
So here is what to do
Go to help in the outlook app
click 'check for updates'
and let you machine get updated.\
the latest patch may well sort your issue.
This just worked for me lol. Here I am thinking its way more then what it really is.
how do i add the new @outlook.com to my 2013 macbook pro
