I've run into this a lot in the last month. 9 for 10 times it was a misconfigured firewall. Something at gmail, hotmail and yahoo mail seems to be tripping up firewall users. Best of luck,
Bob
My PC has a pentium 3 processor & windows XP. I have recently opened my hotmail account in outlook express 6 . However, on being prompted for downloading folders for this account ,whenever I click "yes" , an error report like this comes - " an unknown error has occured" - the details being :
"Configuration:
Account: Hotmail
Server: http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp
User name: tolanimk@hotmail.com
Protocol: HTTPMail
Port: 0
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 80004005
Please help.
thanks,
M.K. Tolani

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