Comments for Why is email between Hotmail accounts lost?

Comment from Grouchy on 2010-03-10

2010-03-10T15:26:37Z

I had the same problem. I could not get mail from my wife at all. Finally, out of desperation I removed her from my contacts ( everywhere ) and then added her back as a new contact manually. It worked, I started getting her mail again. Unfortunately you get what you pay for.

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Comment from Robert DiGrazia on 2010-03-09

2010-03-09T16:55:30Z

I agree with Mark: "A spam filter that filters out one wanted email is bordering on criminal."

I have gmail accounts that forward to my ISP email account. I have to log in to gmail to check the spam folder regularly. Worse, my ISP is obsessive, and rejects some emails that survive gmail, returning them to the gmail account.

The best scheme I've seen is from the email forwarder Brightmail used at my alma mater. It grabs spams, but sends a daily digest. I get digests listing a dozen or two quarantined messages. So far it has erroneously intercepted two good emails in about three years, but it told me!

Even the geniuses at M'Soft and Google don't get everything right.

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Comment from Mark on 2010-03-07

2010-03-07T09:09:32Z

I had a similar problem and this may shed some light on the problem. Hotmail was blacklisting all emails from GMX (an email provider). It took a few months writing to them and finally writing to ZDNet and getting their help was I able to get the situation resolved. To carry out email correspondence and protect my real email address I opened up a hotmailsucks address which is my spam catcher address now. So what can I say other than hotmail sucks. Sign up fo GMail instead, notify every body about the change of address and check your hotmail periodically for stragglers who may still write you there. (I have an old email address that I stopped using 6 years ago and still check it, once every couple of years I get and email from some I knew way back then). Bottom line a spam filter that lets in a lot of unwanted email is bad. A spam filter that filters out one wanted email is bordering on criminal.

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Comment from bart on 2010-03-05

2010-03-05T22:40:41Z

Perhaps these hotmail accounts already exist for a long time and the online storage simply is full.. would that be possible?

Who knows? Anything is possible. In the reports I've seen, though, it's not been the case.

06-Mar-2010

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