A Pattern Reveals Itself
My daughter Heather had been complaining that she wasn't able to... something or other with my email address. Then Denise said she was not able to reply to an email I had sent her. Corrine had been saying something about emails sent to me were bouncing.
It occurred to me that the thread common to all these problems was that they were all using variations of hotmail. Heather, and Corrine are both on hotmail. Denise is on MSN which is hotmail underneath.
I registered a hotmail account so I could test to see what was going. I sent an email to my new hotmail account then tried replying to it. This is the error message that I got:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
(reason: 550 {mx034-rz3} The recipient does not accept mails from
'hotmail.com' over foreign mailservers)
I use an email forwarding service. So my email address can change but stay the same. Let's see if I can put that another way. People send email to the same unchanging address and it gets forwarded to whatever the email address is at the isp I happen to be using is.
The cool way to do this now is just to have a domain name. But the result would be the same as far as receiving email from hotmail accounts.
Anyway, the fix was to change the "reply to" field so it's the same as the address the email was sent from. Problem solved. The other alternative was to get friends and family that are using hotmail accounts to "just say no".
My sister Laura told me that when they switched the msn mail servers over to the hotmail servers her spam level went up tremendously. Hotmail already had a reputation for mucho spamo. I get a kick out of the msn commercials where they talk about the advantages of their spam protection. "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
One way to avoid the spam that comes along with using a hotmail account is to not use it in the first place. Maybe try Yahoo for email instead. I have heard that the spam level is much lower over at yahoo.com. I'll be monitoring the spam level in my new hotmail account. I have not given the address to anyone. Let's see how quickly I start getting spammed...
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