Hotmail incoming mail server question

What is the Hotmail incoming mail server? Thanks.

What do you mean you want to change that?
Does that not work in your Mail? The incoming server for your Hotmail account in the Mail.app is this: hotmail.com
It should work just fine when you type that in.

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