Thanks for posting back. Possibly a pure coincidence (see "automagically
clears up").

You should do this in any event: IE Tools Internet Options Privacy
Sites type in

hotmail.com

and Allow Cookies.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


kls wrote:
Thanks everyone for all your help and suggestions. We still have the same
problem but I figured out a solution (see below).

I contacted Hotmail Plus Help and they said I should reconfigure my
settings by adding a new mail account. I did that and it still didn't
work. I got the same message as below.

But I did figure a work around. We are using Windows XP which allows us to
set up different user accounts for each person (Start, Control Panel, User
Accounts). There are two users on my husband's computer - me and him. OE
6 worked when I accessed my user account on his computer (go figure). So
I set up a new user account for him and copied his address book and
folder info over to the new user name. Voila!! It now works.

There must be some type of setting error or corrupt file in his old
account but who cares - it now works and that's what we wanted.

I hope this helps someone out there who's having the same problem.

Thanks again for your quick responses - you guys are the best!

"PA Bear" wrote:

That error usually indicates temporary problems on MSN/Hotmail's end,
kls, and the problem automagically clears up after a bit. Until that
happens, he should access the account at www.hotmail.com.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

kls wrote:
My husband and I have an MSN mail account that we both use, each on
our own computer. He prefers to access it via Outlook Express 6.0 and
I prefer to use Hotmail. We both have Windows XP on our computers.

Recently, I tried the new Hotmail Beta program for a very short time
and found it difficult and slow so I switched back to original
Hotmail. Now my computer is fine with either Hotmail or Outlook
Express but he cannot use his Outlook Express. He can use Hotmail and
it is the original version. He gets the following message:

Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. Account: 'MSN
Mail (our )', Server:
'http://oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com/cgi-gin/hmdata', Protocol:
HTTPMail, Server Response: 'Redirect to partner', Port: 0, Secure
(SSL): No, Error Number 0x80004005

Of course the "our address" is our actual email address - I'm just
leaving it off so I don't get any spam. And I'm not sure the Beta
thing has anything to do with it . . .

Can anyone help us out there? This is very frustrating.

Thanks!