Mac Mail no longer connects to Hotmail Account

I have exactly the same problem (keep asking for password on my Mac Mail and it works well on my iPhone) !
But worst, I have a second hotmail account and it works fine on Mac Mail... I'm lost...

There seems to be quite a few people with the same issue today. I posted earlier this morning with the same problem and have tried many options but still no fix.

Same problem here. Started about 3 days ago.

Me too. I encountering same issue...

I have the same problem. The only way so far I found to receive my emails was to create a new account with one of my other aliases (not my main alias) in that account. That worked and does receive mail from all the aliases in that account. I assume some type of bug needs to be fixed. My iPad doesn't have this issue. (iOS)

I have had similar problems in the past...trying to recall all the things I did to resolve but will try to put them down for you to try. Hopefully they will help but not guaranteed.

As an FYI, Microsoft has been steadily migrating accounts to the Office 365 platform which I think is the cause of this. If you log into the web mail and get a "Welcome to you new inbox" message you could have had your mailbox migrated.

First off, I use a custom domain as my main ID and email address which causes some of my problems. This was the ID I always used to log in with.

I ended up creating an alias to my account with an outlook.com domain on it but left my previous email address as my primary alias.

Then, I created a new email account in Apple Mail but set it up as Exchange instead of Outlook.com. I used my new outlook.com alias in the initial setup so it will auto-detect all the servers. This was enough to get email working but emails will be sent as if they are from the outlook.com address which you may not want. I then edited the email account settings and set the email address to my custom email address but left the username field as the outlook.com address.

Like I said, pretty sure that is what I did which got things working properly but I'm not 100% certain...hope it helps.

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Same problem here!!!

i've got 2 accounts...one Msn.com and one Live.com

Msn.com doesnt work, keep asking password, Live.com works fine....

Check the email accounts when you go via the web. If one account has a new interface with "focused" and "other" inboxes, then it may be a migrated/upgraded account, which appears to be causing problems. If the other does not have that, then it may still work fine. My account was fine saturday and the appeared updated late yesterday, at which point the problems began on all devices I use (MBP, iPhone).

It seems to be a microsoft bug. I tried to access my hotmail using Thunderbird on Mac and on Windows and it does not work using both... So I don't think that Apple have anything to do with this problem. I created an outlook alias to my hotmail and it's working on Mac Mail...

It seems, that Hotmail works in Mail again (macOS Sierra 10.12.1). I am receiving emails from @hotmail account now.

There is one comment here http://downdetector.com/status/outlook she says that receives emails.

It's seems that my hotmail account worked, naturally. Is that a bug by Microsoft?

Hello. Had the same problem with @hotmail.com. You can no longer connect your Mail app to these legacy accounts it seems, but there's a quick solution: go to your Outlook account on the web and create an alias using "@outlook.com." You don't have to make it primary (if you switch, you won't be able to make the old one primary ever again), it only has to be associated with your old @hotmail account. Then add the new outlook address to your Mail app through Mail/Add Account, type in the password which is the same as the old Hotmail alias. You should get access to your old inbox instantly. (non-Outlook aliases should work too.)

It does seem to be fixed. I was able to connect again with my "primary" alias on my live.com account, which I could not do several days ago.