Setting up hotmail account in apple mail

How do I properly set up my @live.com account in Apple mail? It will send and recieve for a day or so, then when i try to send an email, I get an error. The error either tells me that I have the wrong password or it says "Cannot send the message using the server smtp.live.com:[email protected]   choose a different outgoing mail server." I can recieve emails fine, I just can't send them. What am I doing wrong here?

Change it to ActiveSync,
Edit:
Activesync is not yet available for OSX, only IOS, my apologies.
Here are the correct settings for POP access, please check yours, also check that you have only 1 smtp server defined.
Hotmail Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop3.live.com (logon using Secure Password Authentification - SPA, mail server port: 995)
Hotmail Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) - smtp.live.com (TLS enabled, port 587)

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