My Hotmail emails are not being forwarded on to my Android phone – HTC Wildfire.

This started about 10 days ago and I have no idea why.  My phone provider has checked the settings and says everything seems fine but I keep getting the message 'cannot connect to mail server to verify your account' when I have deleted the account and try to set it back up.  I have download the Hotmail App but I preferred the old way as my inbox is now getting too full on my phone as I cannot deal with everything immediately.  How do I get it back the way it was.