Anyone having trouble receiving mail in their Hotmail accounts?

[rargh]

For the past month or two, other than Facebok notifications, I haven't been receiving any mail in my Hotmail account at all. I've sent myself test mails from other addresses (as have my mates) but all mail seems to be swallowed into a void.

Any ideas, chaps?

[Section_31]

Stupid question but are they going into your junkmail folder?

[wiiksie]

Interesting Rarrrrrgh. My old girl uses Hotmail still (I use Yahoo or GMail), and recently she lost all the emails she once had in her inbox (last week I think it was). They just vanished. Have M$ done a crafty subscription based thing and not told any fucker?

[rargh]

Originally Posted by Section_31 Stupid question but are they going into your junkmail folder?

I've checked many times. No mail comes through. I can send ok, but if I send myself a test mail from work it disappears. My mates can send mails to their accounts at home ok so they seem to be getting bounced at the hotmail end of the line.

[hamstrung]

I only use it as a secondary account, but I seem to be getting the usual amount of shite in my inbox.

[rargh]

Could it be anything to do with my ZoneAlarm etc?

[dave u]

Slightly off topic, but I can no longer access hotmail using safari. I have to switch to firefox.

[Captain]

I don't have a mac. I neither use safari nor have a hotmail account.

No problem.

[real red]

Hotmail block certain domain names for emails - they decide what's junk and what's not, and then just don't deliver a big lump of the junk. That's a blanket way they have to block emails, they will block them for other reasons too.

But in many cases they are the only ones who know. You as a user don't get them in your junk folder so you can choose whether to sift through them. The sender doesn't get a message telling them it's bounced.

There are ways to get yourself (as a domain holder) off their blacklist but you can forget any emails getting through for a few weeks even then.

Some emails do get through to the junk mail, but not all by any means.

Last time I checked, with my test Hotmail account, it was still accepting gmail emails, so it might be worth signing up for gmail and send something to hotmail to see what happens. In fact keep the gmail account and gradually switch yourself over. In fact you should be able to collect your hotmail email from gmail if I'm not mistaken.

As for using the actual hotmail site, or live.co.uk or whatever, it's a crap website that doesn't work in all browsers. You can select an option to use the old version of the site, which might help.

In firefox some options don't show up, because they get hidden behind other parts of the screen. I can't remember what they were now, but I'm fairly sure the link to the junk mail folder is one.