Not Receiving Emails

**LiamA** · February 23rd, 2019, 01:17 AM

Off and on for some reason emails I used to receive will not be sent to me anymore. My email account is Hotmail and I am wondering if this is happening to anyone else with a similar or different email account. I don't see why emails would not be flat out delivered to me.

**highwayman274** · February 23rd, 2019, 05:23 PM

Are you referring to;
(i) your "normal" e-mail service provided by hotmail for all correspondence, or
(ii) e-mail you are used to receiving from VEF at your hotmail address?

Is there anything in your hotmail "junk-mail" folder?

**LiamA** · February 24th, 2019, 12:25 AM

Normal email service. Junk mail folder is empty as far as I know unless they somehow hide mail sent to the junk mail folder.

**MrLinc** · February 24th, 2019, 04:59 AM

All webmail services like Hotmail (Outlook), Gmail, Yahoo and all the others have got automatic filters, which are supposed to be set up to filter out spam.

One thing I've seen throughout the years of working over the internet is that Hotmail has gotten worse on that - so many times emails from friends that were sent to me never arrived. It is easily understandable that automatic emails from newsletter services can be filtered out as spam and get stopped so they don't arrive to your Inbox and you don't even know; but these automatic filters sometimes even filter out perfectly safe email messages. And there's nothing we can do about that as this is not set up on your account / my account / anyone else's account, it's set up on the server that receives the emails, completely out of our hands.

Why does this happen? Because these server-level filters handle millions of emails every day and are the ones that make sure any of us do not get like 1453 spam emails every single day.

It's not just Hotmail's fault; Gmail and Yahoo, for example, have got a beef with each other to the point that sometimes they just plain reject emails from each other.

Bottom line: there's nothing we can do about this; as I said, this is set up way above our levels as users. From what I know, Gmail is the one that works better than the others on this subject.

**LiamA** · March 1st, 2019, 09:50 PM

I've also noticed how emails from Microsoft and it's related services will end up in the junk mail folder.

**buttsie** · March 3rd, 2019, 02:54 AM

Disabling auto-forwarding email settings is also a big help to assure that you will get messages straight to your Outlook.com email account

You just need to sign in your Outlook.com, click the gear icon, select Options, select Forwarding under Accounts list, check if there is an email that is set to forwarding. Kindly remove the address found if any.

This fixed the issue for this end user who was using outlook
- mind you their account was hacked

Not Receiving Emails in hotmail (378 users had same issue)

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...3-5d8bcddb6467

mail does not arrive in hotmail - 2013

In 2nd last message - reasons for not emails not arriving - 3 is technical mumbo jumbo

1. Junk Mail filters
2. Custom Filters
3. Domain has been blocked
https://sendersupport.olc.protection...eshooting.aspx

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-b89acff3ed13

Jenny48549 · March 5th, 2019, 06:19 AM

In plain English it means that Hotmail has blocked certain email servers from sending their users any emails.

There are a wide variety of reasons why certain email providers will do this.

February 23rd, 2019, 01:17 AM	#1
LiamA Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 785 Thanks: 20,299 Thanked 15,592 Times in 806 Posts	Not Receiving Emails Off and on for some reason emails I used to receive will not be sent to me anymore. My email account is Hotmail and I am wondering if this is happening to anyone else with a similar or different email account. I don't see why emails would not be flat out delivered to me.

February 24th, 2019, 04:59 AM	#4
MrLinc Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Nowhere to be found Posts: 629 Thanks: 6,911 Thanked 10,570 Times in 628 Posts	All webmail services like Hotmail (Outlook), Gmail, Yahoo and all the others have got automatic filters, which are supposed to be set up to filter out spam. One thing I've seen throughout the years of working over the internet is that Hotmail has gotten worse on that - so many times emails from friends that were sent to me never arrived. It is easily understandable that automatic emails from newsletter services can be filtered out as spam and get stopped so they don't arrive to your Inbox and you don't even know; but these automatic filters sometimes even filter out perfectly safe email messages. And there's nothing we can do about that as this is not set up on your account / my account / anyone else's account, it's set up on the server that receives the emails, completely out of our hands. Why does this happen? Because these server-level filters handle millions of emails every day and are the ones that make sure any of us do not get like 1453 spam emails every single day. It's not just Hotmail's fault; Gmail and Yahoo, for example, have got a beef with each other to the point that sometimes they just plain reject emails from each other. Bottom line: there's nothing we can do about this; as I said, this is set up way above our levels as users. From what I know, Gmail is the one that works better than the others on this subject. __________________ Who farted?

March 3rd, 2019, 02:54 AM	#6
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,298 Times in 12,746 Posts	On MS thread 1/2018 Disabling auto-forwarding email settings is also a big help to assure that you will get messages straight to your Outlook.com email account You just need to sign in your Outlook.com, click the gear icon, select Options, select Forwarding under Accounts list, check if there is an email that is set to forwarding. Kindly remove the address found if any. This fixed the issue for this end user who was using outlook - mind you their account was hacked Not Receiving Emails in hotmail (378 users had same issue) https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...3-5d8bcddb6467 mail does not arrive in hotmail - 2013 In 2nd last message - reasons for not emails not arriving - 3 is technical mumbo jumbo 1. Junk Mail filters 2. Custom Filters 3. Domain has been blocked https://sendersupport.olc.protection...eshooting.aspx https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-b89acff3ed13 Last edited by buttsie; March 3rd, 2019 at 03:03 AM.. Reason: adding

March 5th, 2019, 06:19 AM	#7
Jenny48549 Beloved Sister Mistress of Mayhem Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Great Gig In the Sky Posts: 6,668 Thanks: 64,911 Thanked 127,567 Times in 6,475 Posts	In plain English it means that Hotmail has blocked certain email servers from sending their users any emails. There are a wide variety of reasons why certain email providers will do this. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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February 23rd, 2019, 05:23 PM	#2
highwayman274 Former Staff Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: The Great White North Posts: 7,697 Thanks: 245,146 Thanked 130,613 Times in 8,119 Posts	Are you referring to; (i) your "normal" e-mail service provided by hotmail for all correspondence, or (ii) e-mail you are used to receiving from VEF at your hotmail address? Is there anything in your hotmail "junk-mail" folder?

February 24th, 2019, 12:25 AM	#3
LiamA Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 785 Thanks: 20,299 Thanked 15,592 Times in 806 Posts	Normal email service. Junk mail folder is empty as far as I know unless they somehow hide mail sent to the junk mail folder.

March 1st, 2019, 09:50 PM	#5
LiamA Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 785 Thanks: 20,299 Thanked 15,592 Times in 806 Posts	I've also noticed how emails from Microsoft and it's related services will end up in the junk mail folder.