Can't setup Hotmail Pop account in mail app

Question

New macbook
All updates
Gmail works in mail app fine
hotmail account created 2007
Problem; i can't add a hotmail account.
It says it can't verify the user/pass. I have tried to delete and re-add but it doesn't work.
Could any genius troubleshoot this one?
I literally, add a new account
user is the email
pass is the password for the webmail version
setup for pop
won't go past this screen

Answer 1

I'm having the same problem. I bought my first mac and the Apple Mail successfully set up my gmail account and I was able to manually set up a separate IMAP account in Apple Mail. But when Apple Mail set up my hotmail account, it told me that the user/password aren't verified and won't work. Sure enough, the hotmail account always shows as offline, and when I try to take all accounts online, I am prompted for my hotmail password, which is then rejected. I am able to access my hotmail account via Safari using the same user/password, so I know the user name and password are correct. And I checked the POP server, port and ssl settings in the non-working hotmail account that Apple Mail set up, and they are the same ones recommended by hotmail. I tried your suggestion of setting up a new user on my mac and trying to set up the hotmail account in that new user's Mail account, and I had the exact same problem. Help!