Re: email and hotmail

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/09/04


Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:33:02 -0500

Is the Win98 machine running OE6-SP1 and as fully up-to-date as the WinXP
machine?

As I said, it's a very infrequent error: http://snipurl.com/4dhs. Here are
a few things you might try:

- Make certain your time, date, and /time zone/ settings are correct.

- IE Tools>Internet Options>Privacy>Edit> type in

    hotmail.com

and Allow All Cookies.

- HOW TO: Troubleshoot Situations Where You Cannot Connect to Secure Web
Sites
(Hotmail servers and .NET Passport should be treated as Secure Sites)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;813444

- Temporarily disable your firewall, any "system" tools (NSW, NIS, anything
by Norton or McAfee) and pop-up/ad blockers.

- How do you connect? Is the machine on a network? Related URLs if you're
using a Linksys router:

http://help.netscape.com/WEBMAIL/common_problems.html#linksys
    (http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=87)
    (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=250663)
    (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315008)

Does the connection succeed if you eliminate the network? ...the network
and the router? ...the router?

- IE Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>HTTP 1.1>toggle between the two
options.

- IE Tools>Internet Options>Security>[zone in OE runs; should be Restricted
Sites]>Custom Level>User Authentication>Logon>toggle between Anonymous
Logon, Automatic Logon with Current Username and Password, and Automatic
Logon only in Intranet zone. (Anonymous Logon works for me, but YMMV)

    [Resetting either or both of the above Tabs to the defaults might help,
too.]

-- 
~PA Bear
Julian Xavier wrote:
> I haven't made any changes.. but I have another computer on my home
> network that is running off of win 98 and it has a hotmail account on OE
> and it works fine.. also a friend of mine is having the same problems I
> am having and it seems to be something with OE and Xp...
>
> Julian Xavier
>
> "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eV8iIts7DHA.3360@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> That's a very infrequent error for Hotmail-in-OE, Julian.  Since you
>> imply that the account worked in OE until a few days ago, the problem is
>> most likely on your ISP's end (cox.net) and a proxy is most likely the
>> cause (unless you've made some changes to the way you connect a few days
>> ago and started using an ISA Server).  See this KB article:
>>
>> ISA Server Configuration Options for Hotmail Access When You Use Outlook
>> Express
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287921
>> --
>> Julian Xavier wrote:
>>> Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server.  Account:
>>> 'MSN-Hotmail', Server:
>>> 'http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp', Protocol: HTTPMail,
>>> Server Response: 'Forbidden', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error:
>>> 122, Error Number: 0x800CCC33
>>>
>>>> And the complete error is...?
>>>> --
>>>>> I use OE as my downloader for my hotmail account. and for the past few
>>>>> days on an XP system it gets an error when trying to access the
>>>>> account?... does anyone else have this type of problem


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