#Hotmail backup for mac full#

Re enter your hotmail user ID and password.ĥ. Also, check mark on “use authentication”. In the Outgoing mail server field, enter. Enter the description whatever you please in the description field. The next screen will ask your for Outgoing mail server settings. In the username field, enter your actual email address as the password field, enter your actual password.Ĥ. Click on continue.

Enter any description you want for the mail. The next screen will ask your for incoming mail server settings.

#Hotmail backup for mac full#

From the File menu, choose Add Account.Įnter your full name and enter your email ID as “first part of your email If you enter the Mac mail will automatically connect to Hotmail and will get the default settings of POP Protocol which we do not want.ģ. This guide is specifically for Macs but the same values can be used for other Email clients as well.Ģ. With this, we can configure the Mac mail with IMAP and enjoy the beauty of IMAP with Hotmail. With a recent announcement from Microsoft, has begun supporting IMAP protocol. Also, there is the other problem of deleting and moving mails on your Laptop as well as doing the same on the Web Mail. There was no way of putting the mail back to the server once downloaded and there was no economically feasible way to take a backup of the mails back then.

I have lost more than 5 years of mails just because while configuring email with POP Protocol, the mail client was set to download messages from the server. Every other web based email provider has it, Yahoo has it, Google has it but my primary mail has always been hotmail. It has been more than 10 years I have been using Hotmail and the one feature I have been yearning for was IMAP on Hotmail (now ).