How to set up outlook.com email account on Mac Mail?

You need to edit your smtp server list and allocate them to your outlook account.

imap-mail.outlook.com

port: 993, ssl

smtp-mail.outlook.com

port: 587, ssl

Choose in the Settings your outlook account and under the Accountinformation choose or edit below the smtp server.

granted I'm on Mountain Lion.. 10.8.5

I just setup my @msn.com account

It automatically chose POP 3 and seems to work..

(I sent an email to iCloud from @msn.com

and replied back to @msn.com successfully)

server addresses are:

Hello pomme4moi,

See the pics below step by step

At first choose your outlook-account in the account-informations window. Below of the window on the right side you can see which smtp-server your are using for this account.

If this not the correct account for smtp open the smtp-serverlist and search for the outlook smtp-server.

This Window show all my smtp-server from there I can assign one server from a specific account. If this server for outlook isn't in the list you can create one with tick the plus button and insert the outlook account information.

Ahh, forgot: In the Window above you can set the smpt-port under the "Advanced"-Button.

-- Sorry for my English not the best 😐

for POP 3 in the Accounts Advanced setting

the Port: is 995 (use SSL is checked)

Auth is: Password

I just stepped through the Answer provided by Marie_V at

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/how-to-set-up- mac-mail-to-sync-your-outlookcom/afdfe981-20c7-4d4a-b6b1-9329b27f018a

It basically worked for me.. again using OS X 10.8.5

The trick for me was to enter a Bad Password for my real account, but actually provide my real email address (step 4), because I couldn't correct my "reply-to:" email address when I first followed Marie's steps as exactly as possible..

I also had to delete the POP 3 account I created initially, as the Accounts System Preferences wouldn't let me create a separate account using the same email address as the already existing POP 3 account.

Entering the password incorrectly causes Mac Mail to allow me to select "IMAP"..

Then it was straight-forward from there..

incoming: imap-mail.outlook.com

smtp: smtp-mail.outlook.com

I was able to send/receive from the Outlook.com (IMAP) account to my iCloud account and visa-verse..

I got Outlook.com and Mail running side-by-side

I deleted an email with Apple Mail.

Clicked the Synchronize Folders icon in Outlook.com

and the email was still there in Outlook.com

Went back to Apple Mail

right-clicked on Trash

selected Erase Deleted Items

Went back to Outlook.com

Clicked the Synchronize Folders icon

et voila.. the email had disappeared..

There is a basically problem with imap outlook because the implementations on the imap server doesn't work correct.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/imap-mail-stay s-in-inbox-when-i-delete-it-from-my/ae12dbd3-a3c3-480f-ae3d-1593dfda7f5a?page=2

Read the posts of Mr.David.Silva

Next test

using Outlook.com I just deleted an email

by clicking the Trash icon that appears

when hovering near an email subject

in the list of emails.

Then I clicked the Send/Receive button

in Apple Mail.

The email disappeared from the Inbox listing

in Apple Mail.

The email is listed in the Deleted Folder

within Apple Mail.

The email also appears in Outlook.com

within the Deleted Folder

I'm not seeing an equivalent operation in Outlook.com

to perform the Erase Deleted items

such as Apple Mail provides..

There was momentarily a "Sweep to Delete"

animation that appeared and is now gone..

Pomme is correct.. by selecting "Erase Deleted Items"

within Apple Mail does not clear the Deleted Folder

when the email was first deleted using Outlook.com

Now I'm seeing further synch problems in that deleting in Outlook.com

The emails disappear from Apple Mail Inbox,

but do not appear within the Apple Mail Deleted Folder..

(as it did with the first message I deleted using Outlook.com)

Yes.. there is some synchronizing problems..

I just exited Apple Mail, and restarted it, synched

and now all messages deleted from Outlook.com

appear within Apple Mail Deleted Folder..

For Outlook.com the equivalent operation to Erase Deleted Items

Is to click the Trash icon next to the emails

within the Deleted Folder..

Moral of the story is for Apple Mail

periodically select Erase Deleted Items

and for Outlook.com

periodically look in the Deleted Folder

and delete those emails (that you already deleted)

a second time..

Have you got the Problem sometimes if you delete a message by outlook.com account to get an error that the Mail cannot move to trash-folder too?

I get this once per day after choosing to delete second time than works. At this point I think this is really a syncing problem made by outlook.com because other accounts works.

I don't use it extensively..

I'll keep an eye out for that error though..

I also setup Outlook For Mac to connect via IMAP..

WIth Outlook For Mac if you let it setup the Account automatically

based upon your email (@msn.com) it defaults to POP3..

I've never been a big believer in IMAP..

I typically use POP3 and configure each client

to remove emails from the server

that are older than 3 months.

That typically allows multi-point access to the email I need..

"Have you got the Problem sometimes if you delete a message by outlook.com account to get an error that the Mail cannot move to trash-folder too?

I get this once per day after choosing to delete second time than works. At this point I think this is really a syncing problem made by outlook.com because other accounts works."

YES! Happens all the time, also happens since I migrated from Mail to the Airmail app so I think it is an Outlook.com bottleneck. Give them a chance to get it right, they have only been IMAP for a short time.

How?? I can send emails but I can't receive any! They show up on my iPhone but not on my macbook! Please help.