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.
--
~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!