[Telstar]

Hi,
Windows XP Home
MSN Premium 1.10
OE6
Firefox 1.0.7
Verizon DSL

I rarely use the MSN browser (Firefox instead) and on occasion when I open my Outlook Express to check my mail and find spam that I wish to "block sender" I open MSN to perform this task. I have two MSN hotmail accounts.

I wanted to do this this morning and upon opening MSN>Mail & More, discovered that instead of retrieving the mail as it usually does I received this popup:



The same in both accounts (one popup might say "MSN5.mailhost" while another in the other account might say "MSN7.mailhost").

I was able to open my Outlook Express without any problem and it retrieved all mail from
the servers without any problem or errors.

Not sure what to do next. My computer is otherwise healthy with frequent Spybot, Ad-aware, etc. scans being performed on a regular basis.

In fact, I just ran new scans with nothing malicious being found.

NOTE: also performed a System Restore to about a week ago and
still get the Mailhost error when I try to retrieve mail in MSN.

Thanks for any help.

[Telstar]

While doing my own trouble-shooting to find a solution to the Mailhost error, I did a Google Search for "MSN mailhost error" and this was the first recommended: How do I solve an MSN MAILHOST problem? and followed the advice to:

* Click on the Start menu button.
* Select Run from the Start menu.
* In the dialog box type:
regsvr32 c:\progra~1\msn\msncorefiles\mailui.dll

"This command registers the mailui.dll file with the Windows system and should solve the problem. If you are signed into MSN, sign out and then sign back in. Once you do sign back in MSN Mail should now work again."

Well, when I opened the MSN Explorer and clicked on Mail & More my mail was retrieved and all seems to be ok in both accounts.

Perhaps this will help someone else having the same problem.



I can't seem to be able to mark this thread as "Solved".
When I click to open Thread Tools the window flashes briefly and I am taken to the bottom of the thread with no where to mark "Solved".
(This has happened on previous threads also). :?

[EAFiedler]

Hi Telstar

I marked this Solved for you and thank you for providing your solution.