Is it still possible to set up a hotmail account in Mail?

Unfortunately that's correct (and mainly a Microsoft problem)

On mobile devices Microsoft e-mail systems (Hotmail, Live, Outlook.com etc) support ActivSync, unfortunately the wizards at Microsoft decided that POP was good enough for everything else (except Outlook 2013 on Windows, which will sync)

MS are as ever impossible to understand.

Look on the bright side, it works just as MS intend it too.

You could forward the Hotmail to Yahoo, then you would have a synchronized inbox containing Hotmail and Yahoo mail, or you could toss Hotmail away and get a more flexible email provider, basically anyone else really.

Once you have established that your Hotmail account in the Apple Mail app is working properly then here's a suggestion. If you want to get all the thousands of emails in your Hotmail web-based account downloaded so that they are then in the inbox of your Apple Mail, first log into your web-based account and, if necessary, move all the emails you are interested in to your inbox. Then mark all of them as "unread", you can do this in bulk in a similar manner to deleting them in bulk by clicking on the box at the top of the list of emails.

Now here's the bit that you might not want to do...... Delete the Hotmail account in the Apple Mail app and re-create it. This new account should (I think) then see all the emails as new ones and download them. I said "I think" because I haven't tested this on an Apple account but it works for a Windows one. Maybe other contributors to this forum might comment on this suggestion before you try it. If it works then it would be a lot easier than anything else I can think of to get all your email download to the Apple Mail app - a few emails could be forwarded but thousands is a major task.

That may work, but I think Hotmail will distinguish between 'Unread' and 'Downloaded'. But it's worth a try. Just try with a few (10 or so) then you'll be able to see quickly if they can be downloaded again.

And it is also possible that your iPhone will flag them as unread, again.

I have just tried it with my iPad and it worked fine; messages on the web-based mail and marked "unread" were downloaded and the messages on the web-based mail being set to "read". For Csound1, my iPhone ignored the messages marked as unread and which it had previously downloaded so it looks like you have to delete and recreate the account for it to work.

iPads use ActiveSync, Macs use POP, you need to test on a Mac (or a PC) and an IOS device (not 1 or 2 IOS devices) or you're performing a different test.

Never seen a Mac with a Bluetooth problem, and I have seen a lot of Macs. What is the problem?

Rats! You are absolutely right - I hadn't noticed that when I created the Hotmail account on my iPad that it was ActiveSynch, I assumed that it would be the same as on my iPhone which I think is POP. Nevertheless, it' s worth istevan giving it a try - if it works, he gets all his emails, if it doesn't, he is no worse off.

bratman91 wrote:

Rats! You are absolutely right - I hadn't noticed that when I created the Hotmail account on my iPad that it was ActiveSynch, I assumed that it would be the same as on my iPhone which I think is POP. Nevertheless, it' s worth istevan giving it a try - if it works, he gets all his emails, if it doesn't, he is no worse off.

Your iPhone should also be ActivSync, it runs the same OS as the iPad. I agree that it is worth a try, I'd just try with a small number of emails first, 6000 can take a while to succeed, as well as fail.

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