Outlook 2003 : Adding Second Hotmail account receives TimeOut Error

[Pawan]

Hi,

Until this morning, I was using Outlook Express and my configured hotmail
account was working fine.
Today, after I installed Outlook 2003, it automatically picked up my hotmail
account and worked like a breeze.

However, I wanted my wife's hotmail account added into Outlook 2003 as well
so she doesn't have to login via browser. But, outlook 2003 is always
receiving server timeout error on her hotmail account and has not even
dowloaded the folders yet :-(

Interestingly, when I add her hotmail account in Outlook Express it works
just fine.

Can someone please tell me if I am missing something.

I have also tried to do File | Import and Export | Import Internet Account
Settings and it comes up with
No Internet Accounts were found message. But, Outlook Express does have her
hotmail account !

Many thanks
Pawan

 

[Andreas Roeder]

Hi Pawan,
please read this here,
its for OL2003 too
http://home.arcor.de/andreas.roeder-privat/English Help.htm#9

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook 2003 is supposed to work with more than one account. I would try
making a new profile, adding your hotmail account, then hers and see if it
still errors. If it does, then it's goofiness with the accounts and probably
will never work with more than one. Or it could be just server problems (the
msn/hotmail pop servers were down for several days) - try it again in a few
days.

FWIW, none of my hotmail accounts work in OE but they all work in Outlook.
It's driving me nuts...

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[Pawan]

Thanks to you both.
But, I just couldn't get it to work.
I am resorting to creating a second profile containing my wife's hotmail
account and having
outlook to prompt me to choose profile at startup :-(

Cheers
Pawan