Outlook 2003 does not connect with hotmail account

[Louk]

For several months outlook 2003 under windows XP sp2 has been complaing
while trying to get hotmail account email into inbox:

Please enter your user name and password for the following server

Entering correct user name and password did not usually help, so I needed to
go to hotmail account directly through msn messenger or web.

Usually this message disappeared by itself in several hours, but for the
last 3 days outlook 2003 could not connect with hotmail account all the
time.

I have tried to enter user name and password, to recreate corresponding html
post outlook 2003 account for hotmail account and nothing helped.

Please advice how to overcome this issue. Thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

I have this for one of my accounts as well. I believe this has to do with
Hotmail maintenance. A restart of Outlook will succesfully reconnect for
me.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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For several months outlook 2003 under windows XP sp2 has been complaing
while trying to get hotmail account email into inbox:

Please enter your user name and password for the following server

Entering correct user name and password did not usually help, so I needed to
go to hotmail account directly through msn messenger or web.

Usually this message disappeared by itself in several hours, but for the
last 3 days outlook 2003 could not connect with hotmail account all the
time.

I have tried to enter user name and password, to recreate corresponding html
post outlook 2003 account for hotmail account and nothing helped.

Please advice how to overcome this issue. Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hotmail is doing some updating and making changes this week. If you have used
Outlook with free Hotmail before and MSN has told you you can continue, wait
a day or two and try again. Could just be a temporary glitch. New users
cannot use Outlook or OE to access Hotmail unless they upgrade to the Plus
version for a fee. See the Hotmail help page for more info.