BobrGR said:
Worked fine till 2 days ago. No get error msg: Unable to poll for new
messages on your HTTP server. Account: 'Hotmail', Server:
'
http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmai...://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp',
Protocol: HTTPMail, Server Response: '', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No,
Socket
Error: 12029, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
Suggestions please?
Do you have a free or paid Hotmail account? On Nov 2004, Microsoft
changed their policy so that free accounts would longer have WebDAV
access (the scripting language used to communicate to their mail host).
If you opened a free account after that date, you couldn't use WebDAV
(in Outlook [Express]) and were forced to use their webmail interface.
If you had an existing account created before that date, your account
got grandfathered in - but that was a courtesy from Microsoft. In fact,
as I recall, old accounts also got WebDAV access blocked but it was
restored in a week. However, Microsoft appears to be now killing off
the grandfathered freebie accounts, too. I had a grandfathered account
but now when trying to access it using Outlook Express, I get:
________________________________________
Could not connect to Hotmail as (e-mail address removed).
Hotmail no longer allows email access via Outlook Express for free
email accounts.
Please visit
http://www.hotmail.com/oe to learn more.
Account: 'Hotmail (lee_hodsdon)', Server:
'
http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp', Protocol: HTTPMail,
Server Response: 'Access to Hotmail via Outlook and Outlook Express now
requires a subscription. Please sign up at
http://join.msn.com/general/Email', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error
Number: 0x800CCCF6
________________________________________
Microsoft has become enamored with their new beta Outlook-like webmail
"Live!" interface but which still rides atop the old Hotmail service.
They gave it a prettier face but it is still lacking many features
available within an e-mail program, like Outlook [Express]. For
example, you are still stuck with the old rules set for Hotmail which is
nearly worthless for filtering mails or organizing them. I've heard
rumors that they would dropping the insecure WebDAV access method
altogether. Looks like they are starting by killing off the
grandfathered accounts.
Oh well, I already moved to a freebie Yahoo Mail account and use
YahooPOPs to access it from Outlook. I've so far kept the Hotmail
account alive because my grandfathered account still provided for WebDAV
access from Outlook or Outlook Express. Now that such access is denied,
and since I definitely won't bother with subscribing (at cost) to a
Hotmail account, it'll languish and die. I moved to Yahoo Mail around 4
years ago and never came back to using Hotmail (and won't now just
because they stuck a pretty UI on it) other than keeping it around for
some Passport sites that demand a Hotmail account (but you can also
create a Passport account for non-Hotmail accounts, too).
Time to update my e-mail accounts to dump the Hotmail account.
