are you using a firewall? disable it and see if hotmail works... if not,
reenable it and remove hte hotmail account, restart OE then add it back.

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>I can not get outlook express to receive or send mail from
> my %^&@msn.com address. it says:
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> do I have the wrong server or what?
> thanks-