Hotmail on Mac using IMAP

Hi,
Just purchased a mac. Configuring Mail on my mac and it is connecting using POP!!! Is it possible to connect to IMAP (like on the iPhone). Thanks.
Fittan

Maybe; it's hard to tell for me. But I do know that several EU countries prohibit Microsoft from charging for their email services, at least if they had an account prior to a certain date, although I don't know what that date might be.
If you can sign in from that page it takes you to, it should tell you whether or not you have a Hotmail Plus account, as well as if you have 10GB of email storage and a 20MB attachment size; both of those are limited in a non-Hotmail Plus account.

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I use GoodSync to sync my normal folders from my MAC Book Pro and my Mac Pro desktop so that I can have the same information (in real time) when working from home on my big machine or at the office using the laptop. This is great except I can not sync the email. I use Outlook 2011 but would prefer to use apple mail if I can sync the two computers (Sync'ing Outlook 2011 is even more impossible).
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I assume that this is a POP system then.
There is no reliable method of syncing the Mail database between 2 Macs. Just how many Gigabytes of Mail do you have?

Using (Gmail) IMAP account from 2 different Macs using Mail ?

Would it be feasible/useful to access an (Gmail) IMAP mail account from 2 different Macs using Mail on each Mac?
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Would it make sense that I use Apple Mail on the PowerBook to access the Gmail account instead of using the web interface?
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Doing so is pretty easy, and standard. That is what IMAP accounts are for, and many computers can access the same account, and what email client they choose doesn't matter.
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Check your mail preferences. The example below is from the mail app that comes with mac. In my case I'm using yahoo mail which is a POP3 account. POP stands for post office protocol which is the set of rules used by a POP mail account to transfer mail. You can learn more about it here if interested. If the box below is checked, all the mail will be downloaded to your computer when you check your mail using the built in mail app and removed from the mail server. Here is another page to help you set up your hotmail account for use the the mac mail application. Hope this clears things up.

Configuration of Hotmail in MAC

Could anyone help me in configuring the hotmail in MAC PRO. I am trying to set the mail by selecting the type as IMAP, the server is connecting to the microsoft properly but the mails are not syncing and they are taking longer time to sync. Can anyone
help me how to fix this issue?

Hi Challa07,
As you are using IMAP account, I would firstly suggest you to un-check the “Sync all IMAP Folders Every “X” minutes” because IMAP account does not need any kind of parameter settings to synchronize emails in Outlook.
Apart from it, slow processing of Outlook can occurs due to numbers of reasons such as:
Third party plug-ins
Huge data file size
Internet connectivity
Corruption within Outlook
So, also check these settings and at last re-configure the Outlook profile by following the given tutorial:
http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-set-up-outlookcom-imap-in-apple-mail-or-microsoft-outlook--mac-54038
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/mac-outlook-help/imap-account-folder-settings-HA102927149.aspx
Note: Also un-subscribe “All Mail Folder” while dealing with an IMAP account.
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Useful suggestions. In fact I had already deleted and re-entered the account details a few days ago without apparent success. The error message was along the lines of "cannot access the server".
Anyway about an hour after your message, my emails started coming through after a 6 month gap! - makes me think someone at Network Solutions monitors these discussions.
Many thanks

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If your having problems getting your Apple Mail or Mac Mail to sync across your devices, I thought this might be helpful. It could be because you have your email accounts set up with POP rather than IMAP configuration. Try this solution.
I had set up my gmail account a long time ago (5 years) before I know the differnce between POP and IMAP. IMAP allows you to sync across devices... POP is OLD SCHOOL technology of the 90's. Now that I know better, and have more than one device I want to sync, so I want to change the settings in mac mail to convert the gmail emails from a POP account type to an IMAP accont type, but I cannot afford to loose all of my previous emails that I'd saved (100's of them), which is what will happend if you delete this account to start anew.
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!.WARNING, BEFORE PROCEDING THROUGHT THE FOLLOWING, BACK UP YOUR MAC.!
What worked for me was actually rather simple, but to be safe BACK UP.
Note: It did dissassociate all of my "Signatures" but did not erase them from my email acconts (I have 14 email accounts with google apps). Your exprience could be different, so please ba safe and back up.
1) First I dissabled the existing email account in my Apple Mail program.
2) Then recreated the account from scratch as an IMAP.*
* Be sure to change the account to an IMAP in gmail first (Click the Gear on the right > Settings > Forwarding & POP IMAP > Disable POP then Enable IMAP
***Deactivating took the account out of view (hidden) but retained all of the saved emails from the past. At the same time it allowed me to recreate the account in Apple Mail from scratch and it auto pulled up the IMAP configuration, with the same gmail account I was using before set up as POP. ***
Now I'm left with the best of both worlds and all syncs perfectly.
Just don't forget and accidentally delete the inactive account, or you will lose ALL of the emails you saved during the time when the old POP email account was active.
Good Luck!

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Outlook 2011 for MAC marks IMAP emails as READ soon after they are received, even though I didnt read them

I have a 2 gmail accounts configured as IMAP on outlook.
Each time I receive an email on these accounts, it will appear as UNREAD for a short while, then, after a couple of syncs, it will turn to READ, even if I do not read it, hover over it, click on it, etc...
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I am on MAC OS 10.6.8
This has been happening since I decided to use IMAP for my gmail accounts (I was using pop before).
It is very annoying as I regularly miss time critical emails.
Anyone who can point me to a solution or a work around will have my eternal gratitude!!
THanks

I have already changed the default in the preview pane...
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Hello Neithan.
Assuming Preferences > Mailbox Behaviors > Move deleted messages to the Trash is ON, does having Store deleted messages on the server ON or OFF make a difference?
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Do you have any Mail plug-ins? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting that information easier, open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can just copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You can then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
ls -1 /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
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I Sugges you to log into your hotmail acc and go to security and password change bit, then you will see two-step verification.. turn that off and you will be able to set it up on your iPhone/iPad or even Mac.
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