Prob with Hotmail on Mac Mail

[liquidpaper07]

Hi,


i'm new to mac and recently just set up my hotmail account on mac's mail application.

However, i realised that after doing so, I realise that a large portion of the emails were deleted from my hotmail server. I was previously accessing my hotmail account via the website, until i got my new Mac.


Is there any way to restore my emails onto my hotmail server account? And why does emails from the server get deleted when i use the mac application?



someone please help me out because I am still quite clueless about how the mac works. Thanks!

 

[Hellhammer]

It's because Hotmail uses POP3 thus message is stored either in your computer (when accessed with Mail) or in the Hotmail server (when accessed through browser)

POP3 vs IMAP

There is a workaround to get Hotmail to work with IMAP so that all your emails are stored in the server