Hotmail Acct in Outlook Express

[munson1947]

I am trying to add Hotmail as one of my Outlook Express accounts. I pulled up the Outlook Express web page and found instructions to do this. I followed the instructions to a tee and I see the Hotmail account and even have a hotmail folder in the left margin of Outlook Express but when I try to log on I get the following error message, " Unable to poll for new messages on your http server. Account: 'Hotmail',Server: 'http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp', Protocol: HTTPMAIL, Server Response,: 'Authorization Required', port 0 secure (SSL): No, error number:0x800CCC32
Also when I try to sychronize, I get a log on window but it keeps coming back after each time I try to log on.
It seems like my hotmail account is not accepting my passwork - although it works perfect if I go right to Hotmail on IE.
Maybe there is some setting in IE that I need to change but I'bve looked for security setting and didn't find anything that worked.
Any ideas?

[dmoltrup]

Do you have an 'acceptable' password? I don't, and I haven't had a problem yet, but perhaps certain ones trigger problems.

Hotmail has a new password policy. Passwords must be at least six (6) characters long and may have only numbers (0-9) and upper and lowercase letters (A-Z, a-z). If you are an existing Hotmail user, it is recommended that you change your password at www.hotmail.com. There may be potential issues logging in if your password is not updated.

[RayH]

What version of OE are you using? Sometimes, there is difficulty in logging onto Hotmail. I haven't had that problem recently, though.

[munson1947]

I'm running IE 6

[munson1947]

Sorry Outlook Express (OE) 6