Configure outlook IMAP in Apple Mail on Mac OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion or Lion

Configure outlook IMAP in Apple Mail on Mac OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion or Lion



It's really easy and we didn't know it!!

Open Apple Mail
1. go to Mail, Preferences
2. hit the Plus button and add other mail account
3. Enter your full name
4. Enter your email address for example "redanddarkfire@live.com" don't enter .com at the end, instead enter some other ending like .mac or .weotrh or whatever, the reason you wanna do that is to stop Mail from detecting the settings for you automatically and that's because it's gonna be detected as a POP3 account and that's what we don't want.
5. Enter your real password and click continue
6. you will get a message that you have to configure your account manually, click next
7. Check IMAP and not POP3 and Enter the incoming mail server which is imap-mail.outlook.com , enter your full email address as the USERNAME "in this case it should be with the real ending and Enter your password then next, it's gonna sign in.
8. Enter your Outgoing mail server which is smtp-mail.outlook.com, your username "full email address" and password then next.
9. once we are done go to check the settings once again and change the ending of your email to the real one.

for example if you Entered redanddarkfire@live.mac change the mac to .com and you're done!

Congratulations, you have a working Outlook mail with IMAP in Apple Mail!!