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Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dead-letter-office dept.

biednyFacet writes "It has long been suspected that there is a silent policy that makes Hotmail automatically delete the majority of attachments to save on bandwidth and internal disk space. Therefore it really doesn't matter if every client has access to 2GB of storage since they don't deliver the attachments to fill that space up anyway. If that truly is the case, then Microsoft may be liable for several hundred million cases of conspiracy and mail fraud."

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  1. This is *paid* Hotmail service by billstewart · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you RTFM, you'd see that this was paid Hotmail service, not just the free service. So they ought to be providing professional quality service, and apparently they're not.


    And as far as other ISPs charging you lots of money per month, that's not normally the case for *email* service. My DSL service does cost me about $50/month (but I've got static IP addresses), but my mail-forwarder is $15/year, my ISP where I've got a shell account and run procmail is $7/month, and my wife uses Fastmail as an email provider for $19/year (they've also got free mail and $15-onetime options.)

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  2. Re:Exaggeration? Naaah. by jsse · · Score: 4, Informative

    I suspect this may be partly because of an attempt at spam filtering since many spammy emails have attachments.

    Quite the opposite.

    Fyi., typical spams are less than 100K overall, so majority of the commercial spam filters are not scanning mails for spamming when individual size exceeds 500K. Of course you could change the default, but the performance would be dragged down severely.

  3. Re:What about this "It's bullcrap"? by cheater512 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The title is inaccurate. The summary is good.

    Its saying that old attatchments are deleted.

  4. Similar Behaviour Witnessed by Afty0r · · Score: 5, Informative

    I run an email server and a list with about 60 members which has regular daily discussions about a card game... my hotmail members do not receive about 10% of emails sent to the list - I've tested and verified this by adding a new Hotmail account of my own to the list.

    There are no patterns - size/sender/attachment etc. The mails do NOT appear in the spam folder, and I can watch the SMTP logs in real time as the email is accepted by Hotmail, only to have it never arrive. I simply recommend that people do not use Hotmail and instead use another free email service like GMail.