Unable to receive Hotmail messages through OE6

I am trying to set up my OE6 to receive my Hotmail account messages and when
I try to Send/receive I get the following error - any thoughts?


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: 'Service Unavailable', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No,
Socket Error: 87, Error Number: 0x800CCCF0

do you have a paid account?

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"Kanga950" <Kanga950@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:705EAA34-BDCA-4A17-8454-2EC48BCBEDFF@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to set up my OE6 to receive my Hotmail account messages and
>when
> I try to Send/receive I get the following error - any thoughts?
>
>
> 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: 'Service Unavailable', Port: 0, Secure(SSL):
> No,
> Socket Error: 87, Error Number: 0x800CCCF0

No I don't have a paid account - didn't even know this was an option.
Thanks

"Kanga950" wrote:

> I am trying to set up my OE6 to receive my Hotmail account messages and when
> I try to Send/receive I get the following error - any thoughts?
>
>
> 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: 'Service Unavailable', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No,
> Socket Error: 87, Error Number: 0x800CCCF0