Hotmail drops emails.

[stevo1210]

My Hotmail account keeps dropping emails and it's becoming a real pain.
What I mean is that when someone sends me an email, it doesnt get into my inbox or junk mail box, the same thing happens with sending emails, sometimes it doesnt get to the other end even though I've typed the email address correctly.
I don't know whats going on, but is there some way to solve this? or do I have to suffer this nonsense??
Is this the same with all hotmail accounts or is it just mine that has an issue??

Thanks.

[willawake]

Re: Hotmail drops emails.

yup. also you may not be able to forward emails with images attached, sometimes or all the time.

my mum was refusing to change to gmail for several years until finally it all became too much.

[zandrax]

Re: Hotmail drops emails.

My Hotmail account keeps dropping emails and it's becoming a real pain.
What I mean is that when someone sends me an email, it doesnt get into my inbox or junk mail box, the same thing happens with sending emails, sometimes it doesnt get to the other end even though I've typed the email address correctly.
I don't know whats going on, but is there some way to solve this? or do I have to suffer this nonsense??
Is this the same with all hotmail accounts or is it just mine that has an issue??

Thanks.

I own two Hotmail accounts (signed in old good days Altavista was the search engine and Digital a new Compaq subsidiary) but I use them rarely nowadays so I don't notice any misservice.
I think there are problems with ad filtering: a few ISPs exclude some big email provider (I found mails from my Hotmail and Lycos accounts are sometimes rejected) because they get too much spam from them.
All what you can do is detect where your mail get lost:
- send the same mail to the same address using two different accounts (Hotmail and another);
- try sending an hotmail mail using your ISP's SMTP server: this is called Smtp relay (your ISP's server gets authentication from Hotmail and sends the mail);
- try mailing your Hotmail address using different accounts.

If mails sent by your ISP through smtp relay do arrive, then it's an HM server failure so continue exploiting your ISP ;-); if Hotmail can't reach only some accounts, then these accounts are likely filtered with a "No Hotmail allowed" policy; if some mails don't reach your HM, then MS filters discards all mail from these addresses (more likely from their provider).

Zandrax