Microsoft Hotmail Blocking Yahoo! Mail as Spam?

29 Responses to “Microsoft Hotmail Blocking Yahoo! Mail as Spam?”

1. Jack on November 6th, 2007 6:25 pm

   This is revealing. I am shocked! Horrified. How could it be? Microsoft is screwing with people? Microsoft is using unfair practices to force compliance and adoption to sub-standard crap? Or perhaps Microsoft in its never ending brilliance is just confused and doesn’t even know what it is doing wrong. That is probably it.

   This is the company now led by this sane person isn’t it?

   http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/08/this-scares-me.html

2. いま話題の検索語とは？ on November 7th, 2007 7:16 am

   HOTMAIL…

   HOTMAIL プロフィール検索 動画検索 画像検索…

3. Deborah Moody on November 7th, 2007 2:40 pm

   this is not true, the hotmail address i trying to reach works for me and I need to forward messages. I guess she will have to change from hotmail to get her instructions.

4. David Dalka on November 7th, 2007 3:12 pm

   It was true at the time I did this. I’m happy that it is working for you now.

   I would really like to see Yahoo! and Hotmail to work together to prevent in the future.

5. Matt on November 7th, 2007 5:41 pm

   This is absolutely true.

   I have friends with Yahoo accounts that are having all e-mail to my hotmail account blocked with the same message as posted above.

   Does anyone know what is going on between these two companies?

6. reject on November 12th, 2007 9:25 pm

   Could it be the advertising text with the links that get attached to yahoos emails after the user sends it are being blocked on security grounds?Ironic, since hotmail now does the same thing to it’s outgoing mail.
   Is there anyway to get them off the emails to test this theory, maybe by paying to get them taken off or something?

7. Dacha on November 14th, 2007 4:14 pm

   This is so true. I was wondering when it’s gonna happen, I was planning like 2015 year or something, but this is outrages. No more Yahoo mails will be delivered to Hotmail or Live mail. Why?

   He he, you will need to pay soon if you want spam free or what you had 2-3 years ago.

8. Maus on November 16th, 2007 6:25 am

   hotamil also blocks mails from gmx-mail with the same text, I’ll just stop using hotmail. This is simply stupid…one really wonders…

9. Hi on November 16th, 2007 6:51 pm

   OMG. THIS HAPPENED TO ME TODAY! It happened SEVERAL times!

   I’m so upset. I’m REALLY disappointed with WLH. They are just REALLY ignorant. What’s wrong with my IP address? I’ve never spammed!

10. Alex on November 18th, 2007 5:53 am

    This is unbelievable - I cannot send email to my friend because I have message as above. I dont have any other contact with her and this is urgent. What the hell is going on? Is there any way to send this email or I have to change my email address??

11. Zac on November 21st, 2007 6:57 am

    They are now blocking also web.de.

    Yesterday I wrote a friend. Today he replied, but I could not reply him any longer.

    I have a second account on web.de, and that’s blocked too.

    I have found a troubleshooting page from hotmail/windowz ( http://postmaster.live.com/Troubleshooting.aspx )
    where they provide a link to contact hotmail assistance:
    https://support.msn.com/eform.aspx?productKey=edfsmsbl&ct=eformts

12. lola on November 22nd, 2007 12:00 pm

    Yep. It’s happened to me a bunch of times. About a month ago, I posted a question about this on a forum and it was suggested that my hotmail friend mark my contact as “safe.” That seemed to have worked for a while, until about 2 weeks ago, when messages sent to him were blocked again. Shouldn’t this fall under some kind of federal law against mail tampering? This is solicited mail that hotmail willfully refuses to deliver. email users unite!!

13. Suzy on November 23rd, 2007 11:17 pm

    This is very true - all my replies to friends using hotmail addresses are being rejected because I am using Yahoo. Microsoft stink. I am telling all my friends not to use hotmail and use either yahoo or gmail.I hope it back fires on MSN.
    Suzy

14. Dee on November 27th, 2007 10:34 pm

    It’s true alright. I was so alarmed when I got this message:

    Remote host said: 550 SC-004 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. A block has been placed against your IP address because we have received complaints concerning mail coming from that IP address. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your

    …that I promptly did a google search to find out if someone was hijacking other people’s IP addresses!

15. Jean on November 27th, 2007 11:11 pm

    Has happened to me 4 times this week. My questionable emails concern info to the cubscout troop about meetings. Really stuff worth blocking. Glad I do not use hotmail myself. I am meerely inconvenienced by their inability to function properly!
    j

16. Will on November 28th, 2007 7:50 pm

    This needs to be sorted out. It’s ridiculous.

17. chris on December 1st, 2007 5:44 am

    i have been experiencing the same ’sender was rejected’ when i send from gmx to hotmail.

    each time i’ve sent a question to WLH via the link below

    http://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlmail&page=wlsupport_home_options_form_byemail&ct=eformts

    .. . and to their credit they have allowed gmx.net within 12 hrs. however, 2 days later i get returned emails and have to submit another request. this has happened 3 times now.

    this may not be a permanent solution but i think if everyone uses this link, WLH will begin to realise that their blocking policy of certain domains like this just isn’t a workable solution

18. Tania on December 4th, 2007 2:51 pm

    I’ve been having this problem sending emails to hotmail from my comcast email as well…

    SMTP: host 65.54.244.40: 550 SC-004 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for
    policy reasons. A block has been placed against your IP address because we have
    received complaints concerning mail coming from that IP address. If you are not
    an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for
    help. Email/network admins, we recommend enrolling in our Junk E-Mail Reporting
    Program (JMRP), a free program intended to help senders remove unwanted
    recipients from their e-mail list: http://postmaster.live.com

    I am so incredibly annoyed. It’s happened 3 times this weekend!

19. Jacobin M on December 8th, 2007 10:43 pm

    I swear, It HAS to do with the new hotmail upgrade. One of my friends just upgraded his hotmail and emailed to tell me and when I replied I got that message. At first I thought my computer has a bot virus but I don’t do any pirating (of course…hehe). But I checked all of my email accounts and none of them were individually blocked so… it probably has to do with the recent up…downgrade.

20. Bill on December 10th, 2007 5:52 pm

    I use Hotmail and Yahoo mail. I receive things on my Yahoo and I send to me wife, who by the way is here in the same house on another computer. She uses Hotmail. My Yahoo messages to her are blocked by Hotmail, and Yahoo sends back a message telling me I am “Dirt” basically, sending wrong material…spam and the like.
    I think it is time for people to realize it is time to DUMP all to do with Microsoft and get on with life without being influenced by a GREEDY corporation ! ( And that is what it is). I have already sent messages to all my friends that I am now using Yahoo, and if they want e-mails from me to use Yahoo !
    Why doesn’t the US Grow up and see what this is really all about ! Greed is ruining the world, and only because people allow it to happen .
    No big deal….once there was no internet….now….people panic because they are a victim of greed from a greedy company ! Dismiss them….simple isn’t it ?

21. mee too on December 12th, 2007 6:46 am

    happened to me too. get your act together microsoft.

22. FirstVlad on December 14th, 2007 6:26 am

    Hotmail s.ucks big time. It’s blocking e-mail from Road Runner also. Tell your friends to stop using Hotmail. Period. Whatta gas.

23. Brad on December 24th, 2007 12:46 am

    Yeah, funny business with yahoo and hotmail..even if you put a yahoo address in your “allowed senders” list on hotmail, your yahoo emails wont get through….strange….hmmmmm

24. beyond on January 6th, 2008 2:14 pm

    Same problem with Austrian GMX adresses today. Thanks MS!

25. chris adams on January 12th, 2008 9:02 am

    sign the petition. only 133 signatures so far but you can see how bad this issue is from the comments left on the signature board (see link)

26. Amy on March 14th, 2008 11:37 pm

    I am hating Hotmail and Microsoft.

27. Audrey on March 21st, 2008 3:31 pm

    I use Hotmail, Yahoo & Gmail…all for different things (personal correspondence, contest entries, and business), and I must say this is really irritating. I also upgraded my Hotmail, and there are lines through all the email graphics when I get them…even ones sent from Microsoft. I hate this! I’m not even using the Hotmail account any more. I prefer my Yahoo, but I can’t send mail to my sister who is using Hotmail!

28. Elva on April 14th, 2008 10:11 pm

    It is so annoying, microsoft! Hope this greedy company go to hell!

29. Judy on May 1st, 2008 11:07 am

    My Mom lives in North Carolina. I live in Pennsylvania. She is hearing impaired so email was a great way to stay in touch. Well, Hotmail is rejecting my comcast account…again! Very frustrating…and I can’t even call her to help her set up a different email account. grrrr…
    I think in order to stop some of the SPAM they put a block on the domain instead of the address they were trying to block…

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