Hotmail gives Apple Mail the cold shoulder
Microsoft’s Hotmail service is not delivering emails from Apple Mail users.
A poster on Apple’s Mail and Address Book discussion board reports that emails sent to Hotmail accounts from Mail.app just “disappear”. They don’t bounce or end up in the spam folder. They just vanish.
He has also found a work-around. Hotmail users who are cc’ed in an email will receive the message. So if you are emailing someone with a Hotmail account, send the email to yourself and carbon copy it to the intended recipient.
Also, double-check whether you have sent any important emails to people with Hotmail accounts in the last week or two. They may not be ignoring you. They may never have received the email.
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October 25th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
Hotmail? Isn’t that the free address pool for spammers? ;)
October 25th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
…and of people who may not know a lot about the internet, but are reassured by the (perceived) solidity of the Microsoft brand.
People like my little brother :-(
October 25th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
[...] In addition to the “carbon-copy work-around”, users on the Apple Mail discussion board have discovered another way around the “disappearing Hotmail” problem. [...]
October 27th, 2005 at 11:09 am
[...] You will see in the screenshot that I have added two. Control-Option-Command-1 now sets the priority of a message I am composing to “High”. I only know one person with a Hotmail address, but it’s my brother, so I need a quick work-around during the current “Hotmail is eating Apple Mail messages” crisis to make sure that my emails get through to him. A Keyboard shortcut is quicker (for me) than the other options. [...]
October 28th, 2005 at 9:45 am
[...] See also: Hotmail gives Apple Mail the cold shoulder “Disappearing Hotmail” work-around #2. [...]