I have a new Apple Mac and am unable to access my hotmail account. Keeps telling me that the hotmail server has failed. I cannot access hotmail from a computer alongside the Apple Mac.

Try using the password for the user you are logged in with? J

Be sure and look at the top when you open the emails. They may have categorized your email into things like "Focused" and "Other" and set up filters. Your emails may be there under another category. They didn't announce that they were going to do this. Personally I don't like it at all.

• POP server: pop3.live.com
• POP server port: 995
• POP SSL required? Yes
• User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email protected]
• Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
• SMTP server: smtp.live.com
• SMTP server port: 587
• SMTP Authentication required? Yes (same as POP3 username and password)
SMTP TLS required? Yes

Click the "Can't access your account?" link on the Hotmail sign-in screen.

Please tell what error you receive when try to log-in your account at home or abroad. Please also tell which email server you are using? Is that any private email server like "yahoo", "hotmail", "gmail" or any official email id allocated to you by your company.

Click here this is the default of hotmail webpage There type your username and password and press enter key or press sign in. Try again and see whether it's helpful to you or not?
Sign up is for creating a new account in hotmail webpage.

All the Best!

Hotmail is accessed thru your internet browser (in this case most likely Safari), there can be many reasons for it to fail but without getting more info I can only make a couple suggestions.
Try running the Disk Utility; on the left side of the program window click on your hard drive, to the right other options should appear, click on First Aid the on Repair Disk Permissions. This can solve many issues.
Have you tried using another browser?
If you don't want to do that then post as much about the problem as you can and that will allow someone to help you better.

I have the following (and complete) list of settings on my Jet for my hotmail account and it is receiving and sending emails correctly. (After seeing 6 posts and none with a full solution, something needs to be done .. RAGE!!)
Account name - "random name" SMTP sever - smtp.live.com SMTP port - 25 Secure Connection - TLS Incoming Server Type - POP3 POP3 Server - pop3.live.com POP3 port - 995 APOP login - unchecked Secure connection - SSL Download limit - 50 IMAP4 incoming email - New (faded out tho) Retrieving option - Subject only Keep on server - checked My address - [email protected] User name - [email protected] Password - **my hotmail acc password** POP before SMTP - unchecked SMTP auth. - checked Same as POP3/IMAP4 - unchecked User name - [email protected] Password - **my hotmail acc password**
Some tech info to help problem solve. POP3 is the technology involved with receiving email, SMTP is involved with sending. (Lots of people saying they could receive but not send, but their SMTP settings weren't correct)

Launch your Safari 4 and log in to your Hotmail Account
Open up Preferences
Under Advanced tab, check 'Show Develop menu in menu bar'
Search if Develop is available in your menu bar(top of your screen where you can find File, Edit and View etc)
Under Develop drop-down menu, open up User Agent and select Firefox for Mac