Thanks so much Eugene! I made all those changes and it seems to be working fine now. The main problem was HTTPS settings in hotmail which I wasn't aware of.
Options > More Options > Advanced privacy settings On Sep 10, 1:11 pm, KE4AVB <[email protected]> wrote: > I see a couple problems here. First connection security should be "none". > Another potential problem is probably that you have both the receive and > transmit ports set to the same port number. Also check Hotmail web-mail site > settings, it needs to be set to use HTTPS automatically. The Hotmail > web-mail extension uses this as a default setting. This settings is in the > options section on the Hotmail site at the bottom of the page. > > One thing to note here is that the security setting of none is only used > when Web-mail extension communicates with TB and not with the actually > Web-mail site in question those dicussions are made upon the normal > requirements of the site. > > Although setting both recv and send to same port may not cause a problem but > it is not recommended as the problem may be trying to both pop3 and smtp > mode at the same time causing a conflict especially since multitasking is a > normal way Windows does things nowadays. The normal Localhost port setting > for receive is 110, Connection Security None and Password transmitted > insecurely. > > Eugene
