Re: Very odd hotmail problem

From: PA Bear (PABearMVP_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:32:14 -0500

Go to and post to
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.msn.discussion (to which I am
crossposting this reply). Everyone there is familiar with this ongoing
problem. Read some threads: You'll find copies of MSN/Hotmail's replies to
user complaints (which explain nothing).

Until they clear up the problem on their end (Don't hold your breath),
access the problem account only at www.hotmail.com.

(I for one am /very/ interested in finding out how these messages can appear
in Hotmail-in-OE/OL inbox but not at the online inbox!) 

-- 
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security
Dan wrote:
> Galen-Thanks for the reply.  I don't think I'm following you, though.  I
> have 6 hotmail accounts, I've been using some of them since shortly
> after the service became available, and the one account in question is
> the only one I've had this trouble with.  I understand they recently
> went to a no-email client policy (and indeed a new account I set up will
> not work in OE or TBird) but NONE of my other 5 accounts is acting at
> all different.  I finally clicked on one of the links, it gets a "file
> cannot be found" error.  OUtbox is generally empty except for a moment
> immediately after sending a message.  y "match the picture" do you mean
> one of those text-"image" things designed to fool automated web
> crawlers, etc?  I guess my main concern here is that this account has
> been hacked & is being used for spamming or other nefarious pursuits.
> I've searched & can find nothing on this odd hotmail situation I am
> experiencing.  Where can I get more info?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
> Galen wrote:
> > In news:%23rE9SxsEFHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
> > Dan <prograde49@hotmail.com> had this to say:
> >
> >
> >
> > > I have several hotmail accounts, one of which I access from several
> > > computers, using either the server, OE or Mozilla Thunderbird. OS's
> > > include win2k, XP, even a Mac w/OS 10.   For the last several weeks, I
> > > have been receiving the following message on the email clients:
> >
> >
> > You should be getting them with every second attempt to send mail. It's
> > a pain and there's no way to deal with it other than to do what they
> > ask (or upgrade I assume.) Each time you send a second email you will
> > need to log back in to the Hotmail site (any link to Hotmail works so
> > try typing one into your browser just to make sure that it's a legit
> > request) and fill in the information where you match the picture. This
> > happens here, and in all other reported cases, every second email that
> > you send. The reason you might be getting it is because you may have
> > more than one message in your outbox. After you've logged in and have
> > matched the numbers make sure you click send all so that the queued
> > messages are sent otherwise they will not be sent at that time and
> > you'll get the message when OE is automatically sending and receiving.
> > After you've done this you should be able to click on your inbox and it
> > will re-sync and appear normal again. Oddly trying to click the help
> > from inside the Hotmail site is giving me errors so I'm unable to
> > contact them. Perhaps you can do so? Other people have and if enough do
> > they might see fit to alter this so that you only need to do it every
> > day or every 50 sent emails or something. Galen

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