Hotmail Accounts Due To Get Disconnected?

Are the hotmail accounts due to get disconnected? I can not access
a hotmail account today, where yesterday I could.

The approrpiate information presented in the OE POP3 log:

Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.070514-1324)
POP3 Log started at 07/20/2009 08:18:49

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible
causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a
long period of inactivity. Account: 'jcarlock', Server:
'pop3.live.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes,
Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

I tried a couple of the other settings to see if they changed
something along those lines, and the hotmail access via OE HTTP
works for another account.

So either the hotmail POP3 servers went down (on purpose or some
kind of accident) or I missed out on a Microsoft communique?

It looks like Microsoft does not keep as many records on their
NNTP servers, too.

Thank you for any comments.

--
Jim Carlock
Small World Talk
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/

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Ron Sommer

"Jim Carlock" wrote in message
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Are the hotmail accounts due to get disconnected? I can not access
a hotmail account today, where yesterday I could.

The approrpiate information presented in the OE POP3 log:

Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.070514-1324)
POP3 Log started at 07/20/2009 08:18:49

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible
causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a
long period of inactivity. Account: 'jcarlock', Server:
'pop3.live.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes,
Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

I tried a couple of the other settings to see if they changed
something along those lines, and the hotmail access via OE HTTP
works for another account.

So either the hotmail POP3 servers went down (on purpose or some
kind of accident) or I missed out on a Microsoft communique?

It looks like Microsoft does not keep as many records on their
NNTP servers, too.

Thank you for any comments.

--
Jim Carlock
Small World Talk
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/

Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you are using OL and OE
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813514

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--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

Jim Carlock wrote:
Are the hotmail accounts due to get disconnected? I can not access
a hotmail account today, where yesterday I could.

The approrpiate information presented in the OE POP3 log:

Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.070514-1324)
POP3 Log started at 07/20/2009 08:18:49

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible
causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a
long period of inactivity. Account: 'jcarlock', Server:
'pop3.live.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes,
Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

I tried a couple of the other settings to see if they changed
something along those lines, and the hotmail access via OE HTTP
works for another account.

So either the hotmail POP3 servers went down (on purpose or some
kind of accident) or I missed out on a Microsoft communique?

It looks like Microsoft does not keep as many records on their
NNTP servers, too.

Thank you for any comments.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote...
: Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you are
: using OL and OE
: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813514

Thanks PA.

It stopped working for two of the SSL POP3 connections, but the
HTTP Hotmail account worked, but failed to receive any email
this morning. I find that very odd, but not quite impossible,
as that HTTP Hotmail account gets quite a few posts each day as
it's subscribed to an ISC.org news list whereby it gets all the
posts that go to a DNS news group.

A new message existed at one of the SSL POP3 connectors, but
OE failed to download the post. Maybe someone from Microsoft
will confirm that they had some sort of server problems this
morning? For a few hours their servers would not deliver any
mail to me. Finally, later on I received a proper error from
their servers as I started fiddling with the settings to see
if they went fully SSL.

If Microsoft does not confirm that something went wrong with
their servers this morning, I'm not looking anywhere else,
and they get the blame, even if someone brought down their
servers via clever hacking. Either way they get the blame,
whether they did it or someone else did it.

Someone sent some messages to me early this morning and I did
NOT receive any of them at all through the Hotmail HTTP. And
one email I received this morning... did not get to me until
after noon E.S.T.

Thanks PA Bear! The second link seems to concur with my own
opinions!

http://windowslivehelp.com/community...28.aspx#320228

--
Jim Carlock

: Jim Carlock wrote:
: Are the hotmail accounts due to get disconnected? I can not access
: a hotmail account today, where yesterday I could.
:
: The approrpiate information presented in the OE POP3 log:
:
: Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.070514-1324)
: POP3 Log started at 07/20/2009 08:18:49
:
: Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible
: causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a
: long period of inactivity. Account: 'jcarlock', Server:
: 'pop3.live.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes,
: Error Number: 0x800CCC0F
:
: I tried a couple of the other settings to see if they changed
: something along those lines, and the hotmail access via OE HTTP
: works for another account.
:
: So either the hotmail POP3 servers went down (on purpose or some
: kind of accident) or I missed out on a Microsoft communique?
:
: It looks like Microsoft does not keep as many records on their
: NNTP servers, too.
:
: Thank you for any comments.
: