Can't set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail

I've tried many times to set up a Gmail account on my iMac in Mail. No problems in setting up the same account on the Mail client on my iPhone and iPad, but each attempt on my iMac gets me this message: "There was a problem setting up the Mail account. Mail couldn't discover the account settings for the Mail server "myaccount.com".
Any ideas?

have you tried putting in the settings manually ?
imho gmail works much better with apple mail then hotmail because hotmail is not imap
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