Many of you may in the past have been using your Outlook Express account to send and/or receive email from your hotmail account, but recently may have been having problems or errors when you try to do so.
You may have received this error;
- Unknown Error
When you click Details on this error you would have received the following details;
- HTTPMAIL: 10:09:18 [rx]
- HTTP/1.1 402 Access to Hotmail via Outlook & Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://join.msn.com/hotmailplus/overview
Although if you are running a computer with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 you may have recieved these errors;
- Could not connect to Hotmail as username@hotmail.com
- Hotmail no longer allows email access via Outlook Express for free Hotmail/MSN accounts
The reason you will get either of these two errors when you try to access hotmail from your Outlook Express account is simply as the last error says, you can no longer access hotmail from your Outlook account using a free Hotmail account.
If you want an easy fix to this problem you can just get a paid hotmail account, or if you don’t want to do that you can do the follow to solve your problem.
Outlook Express
To use any web based email service with your Outlook Express you need to install Windows Live Mail on your computer. Windows Live Mail is a Microsoft program that lets you access, read, and compose e-mail messages even when you are not connected to the Internet. Whenever you do access the internet it automatically updates your email from any of the popular web based email accounts including hotmail.
To find out more about Windows Live Mail and to install it click here.
Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007
To access hotmail from these accounts you have to get a Windows Live Hotmail account, to find out more about these click here.
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