I installed Outlook Connector in order to connect Outlook 2003 to my Hotmail
Live account and I'm getting the message:


"Task - Sending and Receiving' reported error
(0x80040126) : 'The operation cannot be performed because the connection to
the server is offline.'

I have no other accounts set up in Outlook, I tried disabling all firewalls
and antivirus type programs, I've tried recreating the Outlook Connector
account and I keep getting the same error message.

Are other people having success using Outlook Connector? Web searches for
this error code turn up results where people had similar probems in 2006 due
to a Microsoft server failure. Did this happen again?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sol