Outlook and Hotmail

[~!~]

Hi,

I retreived my Hotmail with Outlook for months without a glitch. My system
is on 24/7 and is set to retreive the mail every 10 minutes. About a week
ago, upon the scheduled checking suddenly a dialog box comes up asking me
for my hotmail password If I fill in the password, it says: username or
password incorrect. (which isn't). I have to shutdown Outlook (not OE) and
restart the program and it will connect fine without having to re-enter the
password. It then will run for about 24-30 hours, checking mail every 10
minutes fine, but then the password dialog box shows up again and I have to
restart Outlook again. Any ideas what might cause this behaviour?

 

[\1SE\]

I'm not certain about this specific issue (time wise) But it's not uncommon
for me to have to update passwords for outlook POP clients a couple of times
a year. The password file or connection file just gets corrupted and has to
be recreated.
I would normally suggest that your delete this account from outlook and
re-create it but, I know the MS wants to stop people from downloading
hotmail to their outlook clients (loose advertising dollars) and are only
allowing people who've been pre-registered to continue to do it. So you may
loose the ability to do this all together.
I hate to say it but Yahoo is a better free web mail to use, right now.

 

[~!~]

Thanks for the input. I already successfully deleted the account and
recreated it but the problem persists. I assume it an issue on the server
side, this annoyance started occurring at about the same time that MS
updated their MSN servers to prevent 3rd party IM clients from connecting.
(On my Linux testbox, Kopete AIM client could not connect anymore on the
same day where my hotmail issue started)

 

[\1SE\]

Sounds like it's all on the server side, as MS is locking this ability down.
I do have to say that my Hotmail is still coming into my outlook just fine.
I'm on outlook 2003, but I've been using it for hotmail for several years
and I did get an e-mail from MS saying that my account will continue to be
able to be accessed that way, that I was 'grandfathered in.

 

[Bob Horton]

Sounds like it's all on the server side, as MS is locking this ability
down.
I do have to say that my Hotmail is still coming into my outlook just
fine.
I'm on outlook 2003, but I've been using it for hotmail for several years
and I did get an e-mail from MS saying that my account will continue to be
able to be accessed that way, that I was 'grandfathered in.

FWIW, I am a "Premium" subscriber (and thus supposedly exempt from the ban
on using the POP client software to manage the Hotmail account) and have
been experiencing these kind of problems on 3 different machines, 2 using
OE6 and one using Outlook 2003. Restarting the email client worked for a
while, but that stopped working so I contacted MS support. MSN support at
first told me to add msn.com and hotmail.com to the "allow" list under the
privacy tab in IE. It seemed to work at first on the OE6 machines, but the
problem reappeared a couple of hours later. The next MSN support person
told me that the Hotmail account on the client machine had to be corrupted
and to "rebuild" the account. This made no sense to me, since the problem
was across 3 different machines and 2 email clients. I went ahead and tried
this solution on the Outlook 2003 machine. It now returns a "server not
found" message and refuses to download the folders I created (it did
download message headers once, but never full messages). I've logged in
directly to Hotmail and everything is still there. Any suggestions are
welcome.

 

[~!~]

I had lots of messages (100+) stored on the HM server. Here's what I did: I
deleted the last 20 messages from the server, into the trash can (in my
browser) while Outlook wasn't running. Started Outlook which came up with an
error message "the data could not be resolved" or something similar. Deleted
the HM account in Outlook and added it again. Same error. Closed Outlook,
went to Hotmail in my browser, copied the deleted files back into the inbox.
Started Outlook........ No more problems.

I'm stumped. Dunno what happened, but I'm glad it works again!

 

[NoName]

FWIW, I am a "Premium" subscriber (and thus supposedly exempt from the ban
on using the POP client software to manage the Hotmail account) and have
been experiencing these kind of problems on 3 different machines, 2 using
OE6 and one using Outlook 2003. Restarting the email client worked for a
while, but that stopped working so I contacted MS support. MSN support at
first told me to add msn.com and hotmail.com to the "allow" list under the
privacy tab in IE. It seemed to work at first on the OE6 machines, but
the problem reappeared a couple of hours later. The next MSN support
person told me that the Hotmail account on the client machine had to be
corrupted and to "rebuild" the account. This made no sense to me, since
the problem was across 3 different machines and 2 email clients. I went
ahead and tried this solution on the Outlook 2003 machine. It now returns
a "server not found" message and refuses to download the folders I created
(it did download message headers once, but never full messages). I've
logged in directly to Hotmail and everything is still there. Any
suggestions are welcome.

Yeah, drop Hotmail. This is what I am doing. I am slowing transferring my
email accounts over to Gmail. I currently have 7 gmail accounts that are
POP3 and free, and they Outlook "sends and receives" all 7 of those quicker
then it checks one Hotmail account.

I have had the same problems as everyone else with Hotmail. I am one of
those who are "grandfathered" in, so it supposedly still works for me, but I
have consistently had problems with Hotmail and Outlook integration.

My solution, sad to say is use another provider. So long hotmail.