outlook & hotmail accounts

[Carlo Trentini]

Hi,

Last night I opened a new free hotmail account, which I then added to my mail accounts in outlook express. Subsequently, I tried "send & receive" to download my MS introductory email, however an error message was shown saying that free hotmail accounts can no longer be used in conjunction with outlook programs.

I have also noticed lately, that when opening outlook and the send/receive function is activated automatically that often on the first try there are error messages and the new messages are not received from the net successfully. The second try usually works fine, could this be a related issue ?

I have three mail accounts on O.E. ( 2 x hotmail.com, 1 x msn.com ), all of which I have had for some time. The new account is of the "hotmail.co.uk." type.

1/ Will only the new hotmail accounts be effected in this way or also the older existing ones ?

2/ The whole thing seems a little odd and is there anyway of getting around it ?

Thanks, Carlo.

 

[Carlo Trentini]

there are the kind of messages:


Header download for the 'Inbox' folder did not complete. Account: 'xxxxxxxx', Server: 'http://oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/hmdata', Protocol: HTTPMail, Server Response: 'Service Unavailable', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCCF0


Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. Account: 'xxxxxxxx', Server: 'http://oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/hmdata', Protocol: HTTPMail, Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x80042007

Thanks, any help appreciated.

 

[lee101]

Right, i tihnk what you're saying is you can't use outlook express with your new hotmail account. This is becaise since about a year ago M$ started making you pay for premium features, such as this.
So to answer your questions:
1.As far as i know only the new accounts will be/are affected by this
2.Unfortunately the only way is to pay, or use another provider such as gmail. If you do wish to use gmail pm or email me your email address then i will send you an invite

Lee