Authentication fails when you use Outlook or Outlook Express to try to log
on to a HTTP-based mail server if you use Internet Explorer version 7.0:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=904942

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

Don Hardie wrote:
I have a similar problem Outlook Express keeps asking me to log in to the
Hotmail account and when I do it keeps asking me to do it again, over and
over.
The message I get is :-
Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP Server. Account: 'Hotmail'
Server: 'http://servlces.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp', Protocol:
HTTPMail, Server Response: 'invalid login.', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No,
ERROR
Number 0x800CCC32

This hes only happened since I updated to Internet Explorer 7

Don

"anon" wrote:

i have the same problem. outlook express fails when it tries to grab new
mail from hotmail, but no error is given. the odd part is, as soon as i
hit
send/receive again, it works. it will always work AFTER it fails the
first
time. that suggests that it isn't a server issue.

error:
http://uploads.neowin.net/download.p...name=error.JPG



"Jesse" wrote:

Most of the time, when I start Outlook Express, I get the following
message:

An unknown error has occurred
Configuration:
Account: Hotmail
Server: http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp
User name:
Protocol: HTTPMail
Port: 0
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 80004005


I dismiss the error message, and OE seems to continue running normally.
Any ideas what this might be about?

I'm running OE6, and IE7. I have a paid hotmail account.