eh? anyone find their hotmail spam filter being overtly aggressive?

[andylawcc]

I didn't receive a few important emails; no, they weren't even in the spam folder, they just weren't received at all.

 

[amdskip]

I have a web application that sends out confirmation emails. I pretty much only have troubles with hotmail users and it's just like you said, the emails just never arrive.

 

[andylawcc]

and sadly, some spam do get through....


oh well, i guess it's time to finally start using my Gmail

 

[RagingBITCH]

Never had that problem. You might check to see if you inadvertently set whomever was sending you those emails in your Block settings.

 

[olds]

I do not find that statement to be true.

 

[Ichinisan]

I didn't receive a few important emails; no, they weren't even in the spam folder, they just weren't received at all.

I have always had this problem with my Hotmail account from the late '90s. I registered another Hotmail account and verified that it doesn't affect all of them, just some of them.

I stopped using Hotmail completely when I realized this. So many botched forum registrations that I can never complete, often resulting in my preferred username being unavailable... I went with Gmail and never looked back.

 

[Ichinisan]

Never had that problem. You might check to see if you inadvertently set whomever was sending you those emails in your Block settings.

No.

 

[Ichinisan]

I do not find that statement to be true.

Your account doesn't have the same problem as mine and the OP's.

 

[Ichinisan]

I have a web application that sends out confirmation emails. I pretty much only have troubles with hotmail users and it's just like you said, the emails just never arrive.

Yeah. I've confirmed this multiple times now. Hotmail admins are simply oblivious to the fact that many of their accounts have this problem. They lost me.

 

[RagingBITCH]

No.

I'm sure they're sad to have lost you.

 

[AstroManLuca]

eh? anyone find their hotmail spam filter being overtly aggressive?

Well, it didn't get up in my face or anything, so I guess not.

 

[andylawcc]

Never had that problem. You might check to see if you inadvertently set whomever was sending you those emails in your Block settings.

it wasn't just from ONE person, it was from one recruiter, two forum registrations, a few self-sent emails to serve as a note/reminder.

 

[CZroe]

I've found Hotmail blackhole-ing whole ISPs because one user out of tens of thousands had a spambot virus but they weren't @AOL.com or @Charter.net or @Comcast.com (city utility/cable co).

Not a single cable customer in my city could reliably deal on eBay with their ISP email address. It was as if nothing was ever sent/received. The company would contact MS and get taken off the list and then they'd get right back on it a day or two later. Real smart automation you got there, Microsoft.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Microsoft is always blacklisting my whole mail server (mail.iceteks.net). I'm not in any RBLs nor does it even send much mail traffic. It's actually kinda annoying since every time I want to email someone who has a Microsoft related email I get a bounce back and I end up having to contact Microsoft (which is kinda hard to do when they're blocking your mail server), they unblock it for a while, then block it again.