Outlook Express

Lakshmi7

For some strange reason, I can no longer access Hotmail through Outlook Express. It only started yesterday. It keeps telling me that my login details are invalid, even though I haven't changed them or anything like that.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you.

FireFox

Are you still using the DAV protocol to access hotmail? This is being phased out by Microsoft - you should have received several emails warning you of this.
You can still use Outlook Express but you'll need to reconfigure to POP3 access.
See here for instructions

Saver33

Microsoft has been making changes -I found the following on the Live.com Technical blog. Hope this explains it.

17 April
Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express

A change is coming for users that access Hotmail with Outlook Express. Outlook Express uses a protocol called DAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol) to access a Windows Live™ Hotmail® e-mail account. DAV, like POP3 or IMAP, is the way that a mail client communicates with a web-based mail server.

As of June 30, 2008, Microsoft is disabling the DAV protocol and you will no longer be able to access your Hotmail Inbox via Outlook Express. As an alternative, we recommend that you download Windows Live Mail, a free desktop e-mail client that has the familiarity of Outlook Express and much more.

This next generation of free e-mail software will allow you to easily manage multiple e-mail accounts—including Windows Live Hotmail, plus other e-mail accounts that support POP3/IMAP. Better yet, Windows Live Mail integrates well with other Windows Live services, and downloads in minutes. After you provide your user name and password, you will automatically be linked to your Hotmail account, providing continued access to your email and contacts.

Lakshmi7

I've followed the instructions, but it keeps bringing up the details for the old account, even when I set the new account to default. So, I deleted the old account, but it is still using those details rather than the new ones.

alanrowell

I got sick of having / not having Hotmail on OE, so I installed Ypops.

However I now use Windows Live Mail which doesn't have restrictions on which email accounts can be used