Why is Windows Live Hotmail rejecting email I send my friend?

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I think that there might be a bug in the Hotmail Spam system. Yesterday I tried sending an email to 2 friends with hotmail accts. and I got that same message. I went to the hotmail support page to see what the problem might be and there were several people with the same problem. If M$ were really competent in their Spam filter design, they wouldn'd block all mail from an email provider.

My email address is @gmx.net>. I'm writing that to see if others among your readers have the same email provider and hopefully all who respond to this can maybe we can all find a pattern in this.

On the upside there is a solution, or rather a workaround. Open another freemail account and use that to send mail to your hotmail friends. And switch to Linux as Micro$oft is notorious for thinking thay know what you want better than you do. (Only kidding. As bad as M$ is, I still use it as it is the most cost effective way to get my work done.)

A friend last week sent me mail from her gmx.net account. It was rejected.

I have tried to send mail to a hotmail account from my telkomsa.net account. These attempts have failed for some time now. This always fails when sending mail using telkomsa.net's webmail service. It does not fail when using the same account via Outlook.

I am becoming hesitant to use my hotmail account in case recipients are unable to reply to me.

It may not do the trick in all cases but, if you have a fixed IP address and subject to how friendly your ISP is, you may care to ask them to change it.

I had the same problem. All my e-nails were blocked by MSN, Hotmail, and Live. My server got it straightened out somehow.I now have a separate address book for those using those systems.Using Mozilla Seamonkey this is easy to do.

It seems that Hotmail finally fixed the GMX problem today after @ 10 days of complaints. Imagine, Hotmail blacklisting the largest email domain in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (if not all of Europe) and taking 10 days to fix it? MS is becomig a dinosaur.

I have problem too on Hotmail and to my frustration, Yahoo too. Have been contacting my provider but they just couldn't provide a satisfactory solution. So I now turned to webmails.

as of april 14th I can not reply to my emails in windows live hotmail.
It's also not allowing me to report a problem. There is no way to contact support to solve the problem. What do I do, I have had this account for over 6 years without any problems like this.

Greetings,

I suffer the same problem with my paid email account. I suspect that my host hosts "some" spammers who use the same IP I use.

You can ask the windows live support team to remove your IP from their black list, I did this here and they responded with an inquiry to answer some questions about the service I use.

Try it, this may solve your problem.

The problem came back for at least the 4 th time this month. The Window$ Deadmail people always respond that they are working on the problem, but they don't seem very competent. GMX.net is the biggest freemail provider in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, ranked the 140th website in the world according to Alexa.

A workaround is to open another freemail account from which you can send emails to Hotmail addresses. The solution is to have all of your friends stop using Hotmail and use a more reliable provider such as Gmail.

I am the one with the MSN hotmail account and it is my friend who has a yahoo account whose emails with attachments and even those without attachments have for the past week or so not been getting to me even though it's been telling here her stuffhas been sent to my address. I have never experienced that problem before and she has sent me lots of stuff. HELP!

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