Thanks for the quick responses.

Yes, Hotmail.com is working for my husband, and both Outlook Express 6 and
Hotmail are working on my computer using the same email address. It is just
his computer that isn't working with OE.

I've also turned off the Norton email scanning, rebooted, did a system
restore back to a couple of weeks ago, etc., etc., but nothing has fixed it
yet.

I don't think this would have anything to do with it but we access the
internet via a wireless broadband connection.

I hope someone has an easy solution - don't we all wish for that ;-)

Thanks for all your help.

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

I suspect you will have to contact Hotmail support for help with this. Does
the web interface (www.hotmail.com) work for you? If so, it may just be a
server error that will clear itself in a few hours (or days).
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.

"kls" wrote in message
...
I forgot to add that we have the Hotmail Plus account - not just the free
version.

"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!