MSN Hotmail - UGH!
 

How many of you have MSN hotmail and are having trouble with it today? I can't even get on there as it says the server is unavailable.

So frustrating as this is how I communicate with my boss and clients. :mad:

Seems they are doing some sort of maintenance today.

:(

Thanks, Av8rgirl. I have been able to receive mail through outlook.

I don't know about sending as I haven't got replies yet. LOL. It says it went through.

everyday it sucks

aim is unlimited and gmail sets up free with pop3 outlook

MSN is doing maintenance this week on their email programs... hotmail.com and msn.com

I've been having trouble with it a lot too....

It bites when I really need to send something....

This is the first day I've had problems with it. I used to have a gmail account but it got hacked into and I found out from my computer guru that gmail is the easiest email program to hack into so I dropped it ASAP! AIM is part of AOL and I have no desire to use AOL Instant Messenger for my email...been there done that!! No thank you. :(:p

Hotmail also sets up with pop3 and is free...;) They don't do maintenance very often but when they do, it's usually for the better! :)

It is frustrating when you rely on it for business...I only use it for back up.

I'm still at work, eating my yummy dinner of Raman noodles, and I got this from NBC10 news. I haven't been able to get into my hotmail all day either, just occasionally. They don't know how long it will be out but it's very temperamental right now.

http://www.nbc10.com/technology/1541...=headlineclick

Awww...

That makes sense....

Thanks for the link Me BP? It's interesting especially since it is international as well. I am sure many are affected by it.

I've been getting my e-mail through Outlook and that seems to be working. Occasionally I get an error message.

Free email sources:

I have used all of these-
www.lavabit.com { pop mail}
www.excite.com {web mail}
www.netzero.net {webmail}

and some more I found- haven't checked em out though

http://www.mail.com/Product.aspx
http://www.hushmail.com/
http://www.hotpop.com/index.jsp
http://www.bluebottle.com/
http://www.safe-mail.net/

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re: aim...you don't have to download the aol software to use aim.

same with googletalk im. ( gmail ) you can use both off of their websites.

That's what got hacked into on my computer! (gmail)

I'm not having any problems now with hotmail. It was down for about 45 minutes for me...then no problems whatsoever. ;)

Mines up and running too! I just checked after I saw your post.

I have been using MSN for about 10 years now and have never had a problem before. Before that I had AOL and hated them. They were slow, you couldn't get on (I had dial up back then).

I've been real happy with MSN.

I do have a yahoo "junk" mail that I only go in to about once a month. I use it for all those things that request and/or require an e-mail but I know I'll never read them or pay attention to them. LOL.

Thank you to everyone who responded. Hopefully MSN will get it all worked out soon and those that use it will be up and running too.

I use gmail as my second email site. I have all important things sent to my 1st site, but if I download stuff... etc, I use gmail as my home address.

I find their junk/spam filter so much better than Yahoo or Hotmail.

When you got hacked into FG.....can you please tell me what happened ? ....broadly speaking of course. Am interested, seeing I use the same one.

And I thought it was just me...I was defiitely having problems with hotmail . It times itself out and I have to try to sign back in! :mad:

hotmail wont work with outlook unless its an older acont or you pay

It does mess things up when you use it for business. It is also a pain in the neck when you need to attach several documents.

MSN came with my DSL package. But, as stated above, it is such a pain to attach several documents to an e-mail. So, I checked in to how I could use Outlook as I can attach several documents by clicking on each document I want to attach all at the same time. To use Outlook, I had to download Outlook Connector from the Microsoft site.

ARGH!!!

I can't get into my hotmail...


Is anyone else having this problem today??????


:mad:
Abbie

Well, I just got into my hotmail account but I'm confused. Sometimes a window pops up indicating it's Windows Live Mail.

I have no idea what this is.

Maybe MSN is having probs again...

I still can't get in... :mad:

I don't know what the "Live" thingy is you are getting???


I NEED MY EMAIL.... sorry just me whining...

Abbie:(

Windows Live Mail info link-

http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Hi Jo:

I have Outlook Express (which is my default mail thingee).

I used to have a problem doing the attachments.

I also have used Hotmail for YEARS. Never had a problem. I signed up for something called Windows Passport (I have no idea what this is).

I very rarely use my hotmail account. Only when I can't get mail to go to my Outlook express thingee, I tell people "try the hotmail email address".

Well, you will never believe what has been happening.

I go to my Outlook Express and I see stuff with attachments. (Remember some time ago, I couldn't open up anything if my life depended on it??).

Well, things have changed AND I DON'T KNOW WHY.

If I get an email with an attachment, I click on the email, then I go to the paper clip (on the subject line).

Sometimes I have to do this up to 5 times. But then MAGICALLY, a little message thingee pops up and it says 'WINDOWS LIVE MAIL". ???????

And my attachment opens up.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF THIS.

Is the live mail opening up the attachment??? And if so, WHY??

Thanks,

I have been able to get in to my hotmail today. So far it seems to be working OK. Still having trouble with attachments though.

Maybe it did some sort of upgrade or repair ??
I don't use it- but I'm guessing the Live Mail thing is doing something to open the attachments for you:) yeah...

They did do an upgrade. I've not had any problems. The upgrade was with MSN Instant messenger. You can go to their homepage, I believe Jo provided the link, and read about the upgrade and the changes that were made.

If you are using Firefox as your browser or a browser other than Internet Exploxer, that could be the problem. Just my guess.

Like I said, I've had no problems whatsover other than the 45 minutes or so down time while they were down nationwide.

Maybe you should try cleaning out your cache or temporary internet files. That might help. If you are using Windows XP, use the tools pull down menu, go to Internet Options, then delete history, then delete temporary internet files. ;)