Outlook Express question?

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Just this week, Outlook Express won't let me open my Hotmail. It has decided the  user name and password  I have used since the first day I got my computer over 9 years ago (when I set up my Hotmail account) is no longer valid or configured right.
  So, I just did the usual routine of setting up an email account, and got this error message for the umpteenth time today:
  " The host 'http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/pop3mail.asp' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'Hotmail', Server: 'http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/pop3mail.asp', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D"
   The pop3 incoming mail had been set at http, and this part of the url originally read "httpmail.asp", but a search on Windows Live said it should be POP3 for incoming mail and SMTP for outgoing (no url for this was shown).
   I use OE because it gives a wider email viewing area than my Hotmail page. Any suggestions???? This just started on Monday, August 31. It was perfectly fine last week and I had no problems at all accessing my email on OE.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

You should visit Microsoft's support pages and see if there are updates on configuring Outlook Express to properly connect to your Hotmail account.  

It's possible that you need to alter your configuration to compensate for whatever changes they've made on their end.

hanjie PENS&amp;Steelers fan · Answer

I think you try going to  hotmail not from OE
and see whether you can get it. if is doesn't work try contact hotmail. 
do you still have the user name 
if you forget your user or password they should be phrase " forget username or password" under the sign in . maybe i think you need change your password

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