Is anyone else having trouble with Hotmail + Outlook Express today?

Title says it all.

I can’t seem to download the body of any of the messages from my Hotmail account. OE is reading the folders OK, and the subject lines appear just fine. It also updates deletions, etc. just fine. But it won’t download the body of any messages, nor will it let me send messages.

I can still read and send messages via the web interface, but that’s kind of clunky. I much prefer OE.

All of this was working find yesterday morning. It stopped working yesterday afternoon. I just want to know if this is a general problem affecting all Hotmail users right now or if something bad has happened on my end, and if the latter I’d like ideas as to what’s wrong.

And please, no lectures on how awful Microsoft is in general or OE/Hotmail are in particular. I’m not interested in changing email providers right now.

And of course, twenty minutes later, it all starts working again. I should have known that asking about a problem would be the fastest way for that problem to resolve itself.

Mods, please close.