Hotmail - What's going on?
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Hotmail - What's going on?
Opened Hotmail today and instead of my "Home" page coming up, the Compose page appeared. Also the 5 "Favorite Contacts" were missing. Eventually managed to get the favorites back but they were in a Scroll Box with the addresses rather than the quick names. I know hotmail is going to upgrade soon but if this is the first step it looks a backward one to me. No help or explanation in the "Help" section of Hotmail.
Anybody else got this and can shed any light on what's going on?
Anybody else got this and can shed any light on what's going on?
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I have had lots of missing emails the last couple of weeks along with not being able to sign on. I even tested my believe of missing emails by sending messages from my main email to my hotmail, to this day they have never showed up and all my setting are good.
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Hobo
I was having the same problems for a couple of days. I connect to Hotmail from HOTMAIL inscribed on my Links bar. A few days ago when I did this, a dialogue box started appearing asking for my user name and password in order to sign into NETWORK PASSPORT. Whenever I did this, Hotmail would open on the Compose page. Very annoying!
Solved it by typing "www.hotmail.com" in the address bar. After I did that, Hotmail has been opening normally. Deleted the original Hotmail in the links bar and added the new one. So far, after about 5 days now, everything seems to be back to normal.
However, I am getting frequent "server busy" messages after new pages within Hotmail take a long time to load.
Hope this helps.
I was having the same problems for a couple of days. I connect to Hotmail from HOTMAIL inscribed on my Links bar. A few days ago when I did this, a dialogue box started appearing asking for my user name and password in order to sign into NETWORK PASSPORT. Whenever I did this, Hotmail would open on the Compose page. Very annoying!
Solved it by typing "www.hotmail.com" in the address bar. After I did that, Hotmail has been opening normally. Deleted the original Hotmail in the links bar and added the new one. So far, after about 5 days now, everything seems to be back to normal.
However, I am getting frequent "server busy" messages after new pages within Hotmail take a long time to load.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks LastCall,
I get the home page on startup now, but still on the Compose page the favorites are in a scroll box and it showa the e-mail addresses rather than the names and the "Show All" button is missing.
E-mailed Hotmail 3 days ago about this but no reply yet!
I get the home page on startup now, but still on the Compose page the favorites are in a scroll box and it showa the e-mail addresses rather than the names and the "Show All" button is missing.
E-mailed Hotmail 3 days ago about this but no reply yet!
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g'bye Hotmail
Had my own grievances with Hotmail and stopped using it altogether some time ago.
I've been using an Aussie email provider 3 years now, brilliant.
Unknown tho cos it's "quasi open source" and loved by techies.
Friend of mine uses their feature that allows you to download mail from MSN servers if you have Hotmail email add.
Their servers are all around the worls in TX USA, Aus, Norway and reliability is great. Never had a single spam email (they use SpamAssassin which does a wonderful work, also runs on my kit at home for my ISP mail and works perfectly).
I kissed Hotmai goodbye a long time ago now
Just my 2p worth
Cesco
edited cos I am not sure I can give a URL of email provider on PPRuNe
I've been using an Aussie email provider 3 years now, brilliant.
Unknown tho cos it's "quasi open source" and loved by techies.
Friend of mine uses their feature that allows you to download mail from MSN servers if you have Hotmail email add.
Their servers are all around the worls in TX USA, Aus, Norway and reliability is great. Never had a single spam email (they use SpamAssassin which does a wonderful work, also runs on my kit at home for my ISP mail and works perfectly).
I kissed Hotmai goodbye a long time ago now
Just my 2p worth
Cesco
edited cos I am not sure I can give a URL of email provider on PPRuNe
Last edited by Eddie_Crane; 19th October 2003 at 08:43.
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Got a reply from Hotmail, apparently its part of the upgrade coming soon. The favorite contacts scroll box is sorted by e-mail addresses and there are no plans to use contact's names which I would have thought would have been better.
Now the "Show All" contacts button has gone you can click on "TO" "Cc" or "Bcc" to show all your contacts.
Now the "Show All" contacts button has gone you can click on "TO" "Cc" or "Bcc" to show all your contacts.
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Cesco You should e-mail the moderator for this forum and ask him if it is ok to post the link that you have. Have a look at the top left of the main forum page and click on his name.
Brl.
Brl.
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Earlier today it was OK. Just tried again, logged on OK, but my inbox was very slow to open, though it did eventually.
Edit: This evening all worked fine.
Edit: This evening all worked fine.
Last edited by spekesoftly; 23rd October 2003 at 03:17.
