Outlook Express With Hotmail

[janinegroom]

Hiya everyone! Hope someone can help!

I have got Outlook Express and have been trying to access my hotmail emails through it. From what I know all my info has been put in correctly but when I have set up the hotmail account in it as it says it asks if I want to view available folders for it and wont let me! It says it is a "bad request".

Also, when I press send/receive button this message comes up in a failure window...

Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. Account: 'Hotmail', Server: 'http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp', Protocol: HTTPMail, Server Response: 'Bad Request', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC31


Anybody have any ideas to help me? Please?? Very annoying as you can imagine!

Thanks. I'm Janine by the way.

*Janine*

[snowmonkey]

Janine, what version of the Outlook Express are you running ? do you through a proxy to internet ?


cheers

[janinegroom]

to use the internet i use freenet...

i am just going to find out now if that is a proxy server.

it is outlook express 6

thanks for the reply :-)

[janinegroom]

if what i have just found out is correct then the answer is NO... i dont go through a proxy server...

i looked in the settings and the box next to where it says "use a proxy server for this connection" is unticked... so i assume this means that the answer is no

hope that has helped.

[snowmonkey]

Janine, There are lots of people out there with the same problem.

See what Microsoft has to say about this issue on this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

more question; Do you have any kind of acceleration software installed ? (to make your internet go faster)


-cheers

[KITTvsKARR]

I have found I have the same problem. I have Outlook Express 6 with no acceleration software installed and it will not work. But I have windows 2000 Pro on this computer... but that shouldn't matter.. should it?

-Geno

[Overclocked Doc]

Is it possible that using MSN Hotmail through outlook now requires you to purchase the "premium service"? Just a thought judging by the errror I found.