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If I make a Gmail account under my Hotmail adress. *******@live.nl
Could I use the Gmail client to recieve the Hotmail on my Mail.app?
My Gmail adress would be the same as my hotmail. So I don't make a @gmail.com account.

You are confusing setting up a Google account with setting up a GMail account. Those are two separate altough related things. When you setup a Google account you are offered the option of using a GMail account or another email account as your Google logon ID. Having a Google account does not mean you have a GMail account. That as a separate step.
Once you have setup a GMail account, it can be configured to "fetch" messages from other POP3 email accounts you may own. When GMail fetches a message from another mailbox, that message is deleted from the original mailbox but will appear in your GMail Inbox as GMail. An option in GMail is then replying to a message fetched from another account, GMail will reply from the same account the message was originally sent to. Hotmail is not a POP3 protocol. A lot of people use this feature of GMail to make their POP3 accounts function more like IMAP.
I don't have a Hotmail account to test with, but I do not think GMail is going to solve your problem. Additionally GMail is compatible with IMAP, but it is not fully compliant with the IMAP standard. If you are accustomed to true IMAP you may find GMail's pseudo IMAP somewaht annoying. I know that I do.
Once again I believe you are better off using Hotmail directly rather than attempting to use it indirectly via GMail. I don't even know if GMail can fetch hotmail. I beleive your best solution is figuring out why your are having problems with GMail. So let me rephrase my previous question. You say you cannot get Hotmail to work in Mail. What happens when you setup a Hotmail account in Mail? Specifically what is it doing or not doing?

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