Mail User Guide

Add or remove email accounts in Mail on Mac. Use the Mail app to send, receive, and manage email for all of your email accounts in one location. Simply add the accounts—such as iCloud, Exchange, Google, school, work, or other—you want to use in Mail.

• Hotmail used to be available on Mac Mail as a POP account but now it’s IMAP. As a non tech person this confused the heck out of me and I have spent days reading articles on how to change various settings but in the end, this is what worked for me. It’s really all about IMAP v POP.
• Hotmail supports access via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. Below you can find the configuration settings for those protocols. All Hotmail servers (POP3 and SMTP) use implicit SSL (use ConnectSSL method). SMTP server supports explicit SSL (you can use Connect method and then secure the channel using StartTLS method).
• To download Hotmail from mail server to your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad or other devices, you have to enable POP or IMAP in Hotmail settings, then set up Hotmail with an email program via POP or IMAP on your device. Hotmail is compatible with many email programs like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Outlook express, Mail app on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

When an email account is offline, a lightning bolt icon appears at the end of the Favorites bar, just below the search field. The icon also appears next to the account’s mailboxes in the Mail sidebar.

In the Mail app on your Mac, do one of the following:

You need good enough internet, be in an area where servers aren't too far away too. There's a free version, a paid one too. Games for mac on steam.

• Take all accounts online: Click the lightning bolt icon or choose Mailbox > Take All Accounts Online.

• Take a specific account online (if you have more than one account): Click the lightning bolt icon next to the account’s mailbox, or choose Mailbox > Online Status > Take [account] Online.

  

If you can’t take an account online, make sure you’re connected to the internet. If a warning icon appears next to the account name, click it to open Connection Doctor. Learn more about using Connection Doctor.

Some mailbox names can appear dimmed if you don’t have permission to access them, such as public mailboxes on a mail server.

Usage is nshift strength where strength is a value from 0 to 100. A higher value shifts the color temperature of the display to more warm. A value of 0 disables Night Shift altogether. Night Shift is the Apple native integrated blue light reduction feature. Night Shift was first introduced on March 21, 2016 as part of the iOS 9.3. 1 year after Night Shift first arrived for iPhone on Mar 27, 2017 Apple finally added it also to Mac OSX or as now is called macOS. F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Do you need these mail server settings?

Imap For Hotmail Email Account

You can use the mail server settings in this article to manually set up your email app to send and receive email with an iCloud email account. However, you shouldn't need to do that if you meet iCloud system requirements and can use any of these setup methods:

• Use iCloud Preferences on your Mac in OS X Lion 10.7.4 or later.
• Use iCloud for Windows on your PC in Microsoft Windows with Outlook 2010 through Outlook 2016. Set up two-factor authentication and, if needed, generate an app-specific password* to use for iCloud Mail.
• Use iCloud settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 7 or later.

Mail server settings

Refer to your email app's documentation for information about how to use these settings. iCloud Mail uses the IMAP and SMTP standards supported by most modern email apps. iCloud does not support POP. If you set up an account using iCloud System Preferences or macOS Mail in 10.7.4 or later, you won't see these settings because they're automatically configured.

IMAP information for the incoming mail server

• Server name: imap.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
  If you see an error message when using SSL, try using TLS instead.
• Port: 993
• Username: This is usually the name part of your iCloud email address (for example, emilyparker, not emilyparker@icloud.com). If your email client can't connect to iCloud using just the name part of your iCloud email address, try using the full address.
• Password: Generate an app-specific password.

SMTP information for the outgoing mail server

Is Hotmail Pop Or Imap

• Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
  If you see an error message when using SSL, try using TLS or STARTTLS instead.
• Port: 587
• SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
• Username: Your full iCloud email address (for example, emilyparker@icloud.com, not emilyparker)
• Password: Use the app-specific password that you generated when you set up the incoming mail server.

Imap Server For Hotmail

* You only need to use an app-specific password if you’re manually setting up mail with your iCloud account in Windows, if you use Mac OS X Mail (10.7.4 and earlier), or if you use any other third-party mail client.