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Lennard had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Hi,

I'm a Hotmail Plus subscriber.

Lately I've not been successful in sending emails through Outlook
Express, as I use Hotmail with it. The mails will just be stuck in
Outbox with the following error:

"An unknown error has occurred. Account: 'Hotmail', Server:
'http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp', Protocol:
HTTPMail, Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 12019, Error
Number: 0x80004005"

I've tried using to remove and re-add my account, that didn't help.
Subsequently, I went into forums for help and changed the Hotmail
Server to: http://oe.hotmail.com/secure/hmdata

That didn't solve the problem, so my last resort was to uninstall
Outlook Express from Control Panel/Windows Component and reinstall.
Unfortunately that still didn't work.

Currently I stick to using Windows Live Mail web-based to send mails,
while I use Outlook Express to receive and archive my mails. Could
there be something unstable to my contact list ever since I've moved
to the Beta version?

Hope my feedback is useful. Appreciate if anyone could help to look
into my Outlook Express problem. Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
Lennard

Took me a minute to figure it out... You applied for and accepted the beta
invitation? In your options (via the web interface) you'll need to
unsubscribe yourself from the beta probably. The Live Mail doesn't work with
Outlook Express at this time for any of my accounts that normally work with
OE and I suspect that the pay accounts don't work properly yet either.

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