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Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites)
bonhomme_de_neige writes "Emails and invitations sent to Hotmail from Gmail accounts do not bounce, but nor do they arrive in the recipient's Inbox - they vanish mysteriously into the aether. Joel Johnson writes in his Gizmodo weblog that invitations he sent to a Hotmail address bounced (this even received coverage from ZDNet). Search Engine Roundtable writes that several ISPs are blocking Gmail. It's already well-documented that Yahoo moves Gmail invites into the Bulk Mail folder. I've personally confirmed the Hotmail and Yahoo blocking." Please note: I've not been able to verify this one way or another.
Soldiers away from home should have access to email at all! That they do is a sad commentary on the state of the military. Does anyone seriously believe that the military doesn't have traitorous elements? Given them access to an easy communication mechanism is not a clever idea. Restricting communication channels for those in sensitive areas is the only sane thing to do. But that's too politically unacceptable. Sigh...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
at how many of you "geeks" use other people's webmail systems. Seems to me that if Linux is so great (and it is) that you would setup your own mail server.
How many people here slam M$ and the turn around and check their Hotmail accounts?
That's what you get for using a free (crappy) service.
My ISP doesn't even have size restrictions on mail folders.
-Nick
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
The end HTML tag for your signature is wrong. It should be "voice=mr.burns" instead of "voice=normal". This is slashdot! HTML must be W3C compliant here! (Oh, wait.)
Hey! I've created a successor to the spelling/grammar Nazi trolls: the HTML tag troll! Do I get a medal for this?
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I will check gmail out when it is generally available, but I don't want spam from anyone including google.
Eat at Joe's.
...and lots of other mail...
I got this in reply to my queries to msn/hotmail
about frequent failed delivery of messages to
their servers:
From: "J**** H****"
To: "Phil Dier"
Subject: RE: Problems with failed delivery
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:10:11 -0700
Hello,
In the last couple of weeks, MSN Hotmail was experiencing an unusually
heavy volume of incoming mail and this has placed us in the condition of
having our incoming mail servers temporarily saturated with incoming
connections. I would suggest that you make sure that your system is
trying to make connections to more than one IP at a time, that it
rotates connections between different IPs in our MX record, and that you
use persistent connections when you do connect. Many domains will
suspect a server of being a spammer if they stay connected beyond, say,
50 RSET commands, but our system does not do that. We encourage
unlimited RSETs for efficiency's sake.
Our experience shows that the condition will abate sometime around 7 pm
Pacific, so your queues should begin draining at that time, especially
if you follow the recommendations above.
I wish there was something I could tell you for sure but we don't know
what is causing this or when it will clear up.
Sincerely,
J****, MSN Hotmail
OOOH! A million invites? Man, can you send one over at " incredibly@gullible.bandwagon.biz "? That'd be awesome! Then I'd be cool, tech-sheik, and the envy of both my friends (even the non-geek!). Boy, Gmail, now I can finally get laid! Thanks a million man!
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