[LINK] did I miss decommissioning of Hotmail

[Johann Kruse]

Hi folks,

Hotmail.com and live.com email addresses are still supported in the
Outlook.com service, no changes or loss of functionality for people using
those email domains.

If you’re getting errors they’re unrelated.

Cheers,

Johann


On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 at 17:43, Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au>
wrote:

> Roger,
>
> I would guess lots of error messages coming your way -error messages
> only began after 24 aug 2025.
>
> I am now thinking that my mailing lists would also have a few hotmail
> addresses. Started at the dawn of Internet. But my last mailout
> generated unrelated error messages
>
> I have alerted family, after error message for first timtoday, who
> probably need to talk to their children to fix.
>
> It seems live.com addresses also affected.
>
> M
>
> On 9/1/25 15:34, Roger Clarke wrote:
> > Admittedly I've never thought about how to do a clean-out of my now
> > 30yo address-book;  but a quick look finds 736 hotmail addresses.
> >
> > That compares with a mere 5 oz.au !?
> >
> > I'm building a new community at the moment, and 5 / 230 (2.17%) of the
> > invitees have hotmail (and hotmail-only) addresses.
> >
> > Traffic's apparent with 20 unique hotmail addresses since 1 Jan 25.
> >
> > _________________
> >
> >
> > On 1/9/2025 13:58, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> >> Thanks Scott - just quoted your email - to those trying to correspond
> >> with live and hotmail adresses - which were giving me error messages,
> >> now.
> >>
> >> I take it yahoo ok?
> >>
> >> M
> >>
> >> PS I just googled and my duke was first non MS item to come up - I
> >> could not be bothered reading any as did not pertain to mu address
> >> except I got error messages when trying to send to others. This has
> >> only recently started happening.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/1/25 11:44, Scott Howard wrote:
> >>> Microsoft renamed hotmail to outlook.com <http://outlook.com> in...
> >>> 2013.
> >>>
> >>> hotmail.com <http://hotmail.com> (and live.com <http://live.com> and
> >>> their other variations) all still work - it's just that the service
> >>> has been branded as Outlook since... well... 2013.
> >>>
> >>> And no, that's not a typo.  This happened over 12 years ago, so
> >>> you're probably wondering why My Duke decided now was a good idea to
> >>> cover the rename of a personal email server that happened 12 years
> >>> ago?  The simple answer is that this entire article is SEO spam and
> >>> nothing more.
> >>>
> >>>   Scott
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM Marghanita da Cruz
> >>> <marghanita at ramin.com.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     > Rollins Duke
> >>>     > Rollins Duke <https://www.bitrecover.com/blog/author/rollins/>
> >>>     > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rollinsduke/>
> >>>     > Published: July 15th, 2025 • 6 Min Read
> >>>     >
> >>>     > Since Microsoft Hotmail has disappeared, many people are
> >>>     confused and
> >>>     > asking if is Hotmail still active or not? In this article, we are
> >>>     > going to have an in-depth discussion on this topic today. What
> >>>     > happened to Hotmail? its history, is it still active, is Hotmail
> >>>     going
> >>>     > away, or can you still access your Hotmail emails and other
> >>>     data, etc.
> >>>     >
> >>>
> >>>      From and more at
> >>>     https://www.bitrecover.com/blog/is-hotmail-still-active/
> >>>
> >>>     M
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     --     Marghanita da Cruz
> >>>     Telephone: 0414-869202
> >>>     Email: marghanita at ramin.com.au
> >>>     Website: http://ramin.com.au
> >>>
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> >
> --
> Marghanita da Cruz
> Telephone: 0414-869202
> Email:  marghanita at ramin.com.au
> Website: http://ramin.com.au
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