Hotmail is a very popular email service among the users all across the world, but its developer Microsoft Network stopped it in favor of the Outlook back in 2013 itself, as a consequence it can be very difficult to synchronize your Hotmail email account with your Mac mail or macbook, in case you are still using it. But fortunately, it's not an impossible thing to do.

Luckily, Outlook.com or Hotmail has finally been able to introduce the IMAP support settings so that your preferred desktop email client can be used. As you might speculate, it's not as easy as you may expect it to be. But in this article, we’ll tell you how to set up your Hotmail in Apple Mail using IMAP.

Follow the steps given herein to to set up hotmail on mac mail using imap

·         In order to set up an Apple Mail to use Hotmail, launch your email and then, using the menu option, select Mail and then Preferences.
·         After that select the + sign to be able to add a new account.
·         The email will provide a step-by-step guide to help you add a new email account.
·         Enter your name and then your Hotmail email address but be careful and write it as .mac in place of .com. The reason behind this is that as soon as the mail sees that you're trying to use a Hotmail email address, it will automatically configure it for a POP access.
·         You can now set up your Incoming Mail Server. Enter an appropriate depiction and the IMAP server settings for Outlook.com are:
·         imap-mail.outlook.com
·         After that change the user name from hotmail.mac to hotmail.com.
·         As soon as you're done adding your Hotmail account to your Apple Mail, you are likely to see the following folders: Deleted, Junk and Sent.
·         You will have to select the Deleted folder first and thereafter, using the menu option, go to the  Mailbox then select Use This Mailbox For and choose the option Trash.
·         You will have to repeat the process for the Junk and Sent folders as well.

If you are stuck somewhere or on some step then you can contact the hotmail customer service using their email address or the hotmail phone number.