How do I make an msn.com email address instead of hotmail.com?

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I had msn dial up and thus an msn email account. When I upgraded to cable internet a couple of years ago, I continued to use the msn email account as well as accounts associated with the new cable ISP. I use Outlook Express for all the accounts.

Recently, the msn email will not download and I receive a socket error 10061. My cox cable email also uses port 25 and it sends and receives just fine. We also have another computer (we are linked to share internet usage) and I tried to receive the msn email on that computer (also with Outlook Express) but with the same error resulting.

I have the free ZoneAlarm & tried turning it off but the problem wasn't solved. I have rebooted, no luck. I tried Telnet but the response was it "could not open connection to the host, port 25". Since my cable email uses port 25 with no problem, I'm at a loss. I ran a virus scan, but the computer is clean.

Any assistance would sure be appreciated!! We use that email and are not receiving any of the emails.

I should add that I use free versuib ZoneAlarm 6.5.737.000 and Outlook Express 6. I like to manually upgrade programs after I've read of any possible bugs or problems. It doesn't seemed to have helped me any in this situation....

I found a way to fix the problem. I changed the pop3 server from an msn.com to live.com and made a few other changes and it now works. I have no idea why the problem arose, but apparently I am not alone.

You get a @msn address when signing up for MSN hotmail premium accounts or through the link given above. Hotmail is changing to windows live right now so things should be getting better. I have used MSN for a long time and have watched the evolution baby (to quote pearl jam).

I got to this place by looking up how to check
my email when i am out of state becouse i have
a @msn.com email address but i need to log-on
with software that is on my home computer. i have
msn premium from my ISP I was out of state and
was on a computer at a hotel that did not have
the msn premium software installed

I have had my hotmail.com account for 6 years and presently want an msn.com with the same name ad used for the hotmail account. my questions are:- 1. will signing up for msn hotmail premium convert my already existing name ad to msn? 2. how do i for eg convert my name@hotmail.com to my name@msn.com as i do not want the hyphen,underscore etc associated with my email ad?

I sent a email to MSN help on how to check my
email if i am on a computer that is not running
the MSN software and i did not get any help..
i found that MSN Premium is a software on your
computer msn.exe and a bunch of .dll files
and it needs alot of resources in your windows
system to run. so i do not see a way that
you could connect from a computer that is not running MSN Premium software to check your
email..

I have have been looking into MSN Premium that i
have and found you can goto http:\\my.msn.com and
put in your name and password to bring up your page that you see when on MSN Premium with any
web browser, but you still can not get to your email. you need to be on the MSN Premium browser
to get to your @msn.com email, the link to the
mail server is located in the MSN Premium browser
http:\\watson.microsoft.com I have not found away
around it yet, but i am still looking at the MSN
Premium browser code in MSN.EXE BUT i can tell you
it is more then just a web-based email so use Hotmail if you want to check your email on a computer in a hotel that does not have MSN Premium
software installed on it....

hi ppl, its EASY to create a @msn.com account..

just use the MSN Explorer that comes with every WXP edition and create a new account there. piece of cake

I have @msn account, but I did not sign up for the Premium services. I tried the MSN explorer and it no longer works. It will not let you get to the next step without credit card and stuff. Try the link to sign up for @msn account: https://accountservices.passport.net/reg.srf?ns=msn.com&sl=1&lc=1033

For those of you thinking about converting from hotmail, I think you'll just have a new email address @msn unless there is some sort of redirecting all of your hotmail emails to your new @MSN email account, which by the way is possible with Gmail.

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