MS is phasing out support for older accounts as well.

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After furious head scratching, JDJ asked:

| On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:39:58 -0400, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
| wrote:
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|| That is http - and most free accounts no longer support it. If you
|| have a paid account, you can set it in outlook 2007.
|
| You are right, its HTTP, however, what happened was MS (or MSN) quit
| handing out NEW HTTP free accounts that would work with MS Outlook,
| but all the old free accounts still worked with MS Outlook, so I hope
| they haven't deliberately removed that feature in this "upgrade".
|
| The paid accounts (I don't have one) do it with POP (as a mirror to
| what you get through the web interface) don't they?