How to secure AIM password in Mail??

I'm changing my primary e-mail from hotmail to aim after it recently got hacked, when I try to configure my aim in Mail it says "Mail cannot send your password securely to the server." and then it gives me the choice to continue without the password being secure which would put it at risk, or setup manually. After I set it up manually and enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) it gives me the same message as before but this time when i choose setup manually and enable SSL again, it works. How do I know if my password is secure??

I'm changing my primary e-mail from hotmail to aim after it recently got hacked
If it was hacked, it indicates you had an easily guessable password. The solution is not to change to a different provider, since the same thing will happen. Instead, you need to change your Hotmail password to something that is secure and cannot be guessed.
How do I know if my password is secure?
If you set it up correctly, and AOL (not AIM) uses SSL for security, then it will be secure. If not, then it won't. But that's not really a problem anyway. Only a man-in-the-middle attack could reveal your password, and those are easily detected by AOL.
As I said, the solution is to change your Hotmail password to something secure; i.e., at least 27 random characters, and use a password manager such as 1Password or LastPass to generate it and store it for you.

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