Help accessing Hotmail!

Question

I have had my Blackberry now for 24 hrs and I can't get on my Hotmail account.  My phone is a Blackbery Curve 8320 from T-Mobile. 
I tried setting up the e-mail function with my Hotmail account, and I get this message:
"An error occurred during email account validation.  Please check your information and try again.  If the error persists please contact your email account provider."
So I tried logging onto my Hotmail account using the internet browser function.  When attempt to log
 in, I get this message:
 "HTTP Error 502 Bad Gateway
The gateway recieved an invalid
response from the server when
attempting to fulfill your request.
Pleas try loading a different
page.  Contact your service
provider if this problem persists."
I can log onto the Hotmail Mobile site from my laptop, but for some reason, not on my phone.  If anybody can help me out with this, I would really appreciate it.  I am getting a little fustrated.
EDIT TO ADD:
I read another post were you have to have an older hotmail account to be able to access it on the mobil unless youpay. My Hotmail account is actually so old that I have had my account since about 4 years before Microsoft bought out Hotmail.  We are talking somewhere around 1994 to 1996 since I signed up for hotmail.
Message Edited by 03rangerxlt on 04-03-2008 02:19 PM

Answer 1

If I could attach screenshots, it would be easier to explain.  But you may be able to try this, it might work.
1) Log into your BlackBerry Internet Service Website, which should be something similar to this (depending on your carrier):
https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=vzw
2) Once logged in you should see a button that says "Setup Email Accounts", click on it, but instead of putting in Hotmail info, put in random information here ie.  [email protected] for email address.  If the BIS sees Hotmail, it won't allow you to manually configure it, it will simply tell you to contact your email provider.
3)  It will say its processing, then it will come back with an error, choose "I will provide the settings" click next
4) Choose "This is my personal email account"
5) Choose "I will provide the settings to add this email account"
6) Fill in your hotmail info and the mail server I provided in a previous post.
That may or may not work.  Looking at my BIS, it appears as if I can no longer configure my port manually so if that process doesn't dig up and use port 995 automatically and you can't manually set it to port 995 you may be out of luck.
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