Hotmail account in Outlook Express?

I would try opening Outlook Express.

Click on tools

accounts

mail

Then remove the email accounbt in question.

Restart your computer.

Open Outlook Express.

and follow these instructions.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/oe/setup.mspx


Hope this helps.

Grandpaw,

Rather strange. You did need a paid hotmail account for this for a long time before October 21 already, and if you have it should still work.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];878462 tells about the paid hotmail account.

Detailed instructions for hotmail access in OE:
http://email.about.com/cs/oetipstricks/qt/et041202.htm
or using an intermediate program called freepops:
http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstips/qt/et061405.htm (no need for this, I assume)
Also instructive:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/mailserver.mspx

Hope this helps and let us know.

Kees

I removed the Hotmail account from OE. Restarted. Set up a hotmail account once again using the instructions Kees cited. I got the messages asking if I wanted to download hotmail folders. Nothing happened. (All the Hotmail folders are already in OE because of my previous Hotmail account in OE). I went Tools>Synchronize all. The resulting screen flashed by so quickly that I couldn't tell what it said, but it didn't move the most recent Hotmail Inbox messages to OE.

I do have a paid Hotmail Premium account.

I have written to Hotmail and it's even possible that it will answer some day, and possibly even provide relevant information and a solution. But at my age, I don't want to count on it.

What should I do now? I actually don't open my OE account very much because I do all my email business in the Hotmail account. But I do go there some, as when I wnat to archive some hotmail emails in OE.

grandpaw

I'm afraid this is getting too complicated to expect anyone to deal with it, but I'll still provide the info:

I just noticed is that when I open OE, the title says Outlook Express powered by ATT. I used to connect via ATT dialup but got rid of that some time back, and now use Comcast. I have XP with SP2, which I understand includes OE6. I don't know if that means anything or not.

I just went through some gyrations and I'm not sure I am remembering what all happened but I'll do the best I can.

When I have been in OE and went Tools>Synchronize All, the OE message that should have told me synchronizing was taking place would flash across the screen so fast that I couldn't read any of it.

When I tried to send a hotmail while in OE, I got an error message reading "Outlook Express has encountered a problem and needs to close". It provides a place to send MS a report, which I did.

When I tried to send the same email again, I got the OE report that sending the message, and checking Hotmail for messages, both failed.

The details for not being able to send were: an unknown error has occurred: Account "Hotmail" Server. http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp. Protocol HTTPMail Server Response "Redirect to partner. Port 0, Secure (SSL) No. Error Number 0x80004005.

The details for not being able to poll Hotmail for new messages was: Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. with the rest of the message being identical to the first message.

Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly at what point this happened, but all of my Hotmail folders have disappeared from OE. They remained there when I removed Hotmail as an OE account, which surprised me. but disappeared when I was performing the business of trying to send a Hotmail via OE.

And when I opened OE to find those folders had disappeared, there was a Log on - Hotmail message asking me to provide my Hotmail Username and password and showing the Logon Server as http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp . When I submitted that, I got a message advising that OE had no Hotmail folders and asking if I wanted to see a list of them, to which I answered yes. I then got a Downloading Folders From Hotmail progress message showing them being downloading. But that went on for some time without finishing, and then I got a second OE message, while the progress message was still running, stating that an unknown error had occurred.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

The last Hotmail to show up in OE was dated Oct. 21. So I used System Restore to go back to Oct 19 and OE now shows all my Hotmail.

I have a couple of questions related to this use of System Restore which are of a general nature so that I am asking them in a post in the Virus area.

Thanks, Covenant, for sticking with me.

grandpaw