Problem signing in to MSN MAIL

[frustrated]

When I go to MSN it will go to my homepage and mail
inbox, but when I click on check for new msgs. i get a
msg: PROBLEM SIGNING IN TO CHECK E-MAIL. I have checked
everything I know of which isn't a lot, but cannot correct
the problem. I have been having this problem since
2/24/04. I don't have a problem with my other MSN account.
I can go directly to MSNHOTMAIL without problems but I
don't want to have to do this...ANY help would be
appreciated...Thanks

 

[PA Bear]

Change your homepage to anything but www.msn.com or www.mymsn.com and see
what happens. Others have been reporting similar problems for over a week
now.
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IE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser

HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

 

[Frustrated still....]

Thanks for your reply Pa Bear. It didn't work though. I
do appreciate your response. I had posted last week but
had no reply at that time.

-----Original Message-----
Change your homepage to anything but www.msn.com or

www.mymsn.com and see

 

[PA Bear]

Some other users of New Hotmail, using both desktops and laptops, IE and OE,
have been having these problems since the new format was introduced on 01
Dec-03. Some users are seeing Hotmail messages arrive with blank message
bodies. For the time being, avoid using Rich Text/HTML format, even in
Replies and Forwards, using only Plain Text.

Hotmail/MSN should be treated as a secure site, requiring that your computer
be able to negotiate SSL protocols when logging in, so any of these
third-party applications may be interfering (as well as hijackware):
anti-virus, firewall, anti-spam tools, "system" tools (NSW, NIS, anything by
McAfee). The best approach would be to disable all of them and, assuming
Hotmail then works properly, re-enable each application in turn, by itself
with no others running, to see which one or which combination is causing the
problem. If the machines are on a network, that's another area to consider
when troubleshooting.

Some resources:

Troubleshooting Secure Sites
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813444
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers2.htm#secure_sites

Page cannot be displayed errors
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#dns

Make absolutely certain each machine is fully up-to-date at Windows Update
(and with virus definitions) and that the 5.6 Scripting Engine has been
reinstalled:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp.