Mail with Hotmail account not working.

I use my Hotmail from the Mail app and days ago it requested me my password again so I typed it CORRECTLY and it doesnt logs in, it keeps saying me "The Hotmail POP server “pop3.live.com” rejected the password for user "[email protected]" "
I already tried logging in from the web page and it works perfectly fine with the same password.
What is the problem? Someone help !
Thanks!!!!!

you're password is too long, for some reason mail tends to do weird stuff if your password is too long, i had the same issue and changing the password to something shorter worked (using 10 characters now)
Hope this fixes your problem,
Alex

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