Why is my mail to HotMail (or AOL, Yahoo, etc.) subscribers not being delivered?

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My experience with AOL has been exactly the opposite of what you're
describing.

People fail to get email that they've requested, and without
notification to either the recipient or the sender. AOL has been
particularly UNhelpful in helping the organizations I've been dealing
with. As a result we've basically given up trying to get AOL to work. We
now recommend to our members that they use an email account other than
an AOL account.

Leo
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I had a great experience with AOL getting removed from a spam list b/c of a hacked mail form. Now yahoo and hotmail were horrible... i still cannot get them to allow my mail through... also hotmail nor yahoo even respond... AOL required a single phone call and w/in hours i was receiving mail again. AOL postmaster is the best i have dealt with yet.

Your article is interesting all I'm trying to do is get in touch with my niece at hotmail.com.Every time I try it won't go through.I have multiple sclerosis and can get confused.Need a simple answer.

I checked the error code I was getting under search...aol 554. Seems my aol friends were not getting my messages..Daemon Mailto returned...Found out I had a signature on my e mail and their account did not accept attachments. I took off my signature..under options on my yahoo page and now all goes well. Just check out the error code you are getting and maybe you can figure yours out as well

It's a shame that spammers have ruined the email system. It's even more a shame that legitimate companies can not get their subscribed emails through, BUT, I have to say that a lot of the legitimate companies cheat a little too, and when they get caught at it they seem to complain the loudest while excusing their behaviour. One client I worked for actually got mad at me because I would not punch a hole in my personal email system for his service. I told him Nopeddlers.com was under total user control and if they wanted his stuff they would get it. Came to find out what he was calling legal was purchasing mailing lists. We all know that most lists are scraped from tons of illegitimate sources and so I will end this with a person peice of advice. If your email service is getting blocked you need to be more legitimate than you already think you are. As for me I get all the spam protection I need from my current provider, and believe me when I say I ONLY GET WHAT I WANT.

Please try and remember something. Email was meant to improve the quality of life, not become a platform for floods of spam just because you dont have to pay to send it.

Configure your mailers to use true and accurate headers
Provide a legitimate automated and easy to use unsubscribe link
Make the link CONSPICUOUS!!!

Remeber if you don't offend the recipient in the first place you will stand a better chance of not getting reported.

I am using a quite legitimate email address and have definitely done nothing to have these people at Hotmail block my emails to private recipients.

It is disgusting that these companies can be so heavy-handed and able to take cart-blanch action to interfere with personal mail.

Up to this week all my emails have been getting through and there has been absolutely no reason for this to have happened.

It is a pity that legal action cannot be taken against these parasites for dealing out unwarranted punishment to innocent people.

Thanks,
Graham.

I can access the MSN home page but I cannot get to the log in page it is completely blank. So I am unable to sign in. Whats the problem?

I am trying to sign up for email and I can't get it to go through everytime I go to mail I am not getting it

It's really a problem with Microsoft's ALMIGHTY attitude.

The problem is easily solved. It occurs when you send too many emails to msn accounts in a short period of time. Their system automatically blocks the sender believing it might be some maniacal spammer.

All you have to do is religiously refrain from sending anything at all from the blocked account to ANY MSN or Hotmail account for 48 hours and the block will automatically disappear.

MSN knows this and could easily put everyone of this ton of complaints to rest by having anyone who answers their phone tell that to the caller.

Instead, no matter how they respond, it always is to contact technical support which charges a not too friendly hourly charge.

So there, you have it for free.

Tis is from MSN:

You're prompted to remove recipients before you can send a message

When you try to send an e-mail message to multiple recipients, you may receive an error message that states that you must remove some recipients before you can send your message. You may also receive this error message if you’ve sent several messages to many different recipients in the same day.

If you receive this error message, reduce the number of recipients to the number that is indicated in the error message, and then try to send your message again.

To help reduce the amount of junk e-mail (Unwanted, unsolicited, or illicit e-mail or other electronic messages, including spam.) sent from Windows Live Hotmail accounts, we limit the number of recipients that you can send a message to at one time. As you develop a reputation for not sending junk e-mail, we increase the number of recipients that you can send messages to.

Notes

· If you're not a new user, or if you haven't sent messages to a large number of recipients, wait 12 hours, and then try to send the message again.

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