Hotmail outage hits Apple and broadband users
Following up on a story from Tuesday, Tom Sanders writes on vnunet.com:
A problem with Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN email service is preventing users from multiple providers from sending messages to the Microsoft email services.
Users of the Mail application in Apple's OS X operating system on Monday started reporting that email messages addressed at Hotmail and MSN addresses weren't being delivered. The problem doesn't occur if a copy of the message is sent to the user's own account. Changing the priority setting from 'normal' to either high or low also provides a workaround, users reported on the forum.
Microsoft was made aware of the issues with the Apple users by vnunet.com on Monday. The company acknowledged the problem and said it has been working on a solution. As of Wednesday afternoon there was still no fix and Microsoft couldn't provide any background information on what was causing the problems.
Subscribers of the Comcast broadband internet service reported similar issues last week. The provider started blocking all outgoing email sent to Hotmail and MSN accounts after these messages were queuing up on their servers. The issue was resolved on October 20, as vnunet.com reported earlier this week.
posted by Fergie @ 10/27/2005 04:05:00 PM
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