The last couple of days when I try to go into outlook to receive mail it just buffers and I have to end task to get out. Do you think if I get the patch it will work again or is it just to old and out dated?
That's not what the patch is for.
I don't know if there's an Outlook patch that would allow it to connect, but if Microsoft stopped supporting your version of Outlook, then created a security patch that interfered with Outlook, it may not work any more.
Are you sure it's not the email server that's at fault?
Did you check to see if your email service is having any outages or down time?