[LINK] did I miss decommissioning of Hotmail

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Johann, more info would be useful. Issue that ISP did not respond 
previously, and I don't like my chances now but it might be my ISP and I 
will send them the error message which includes: "host 
hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com <snip>SMTP error from remote mail 
server after pipelined MAIL 
FROM:<marghanita at ramin.com.au>SIZE=<snip><snip>Unfortunately, messages 
from <snip>weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider 
since part of their network is on our block list (S3150). You can also 
refer your provider to 
http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. [Name=Protocol 
Filter Agent"

On 9/1/25 18:28, Johann Kruse wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Hotmail.com and live.com <http://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 <http://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>
> <http://outlook.com> in...
> >>> 2013.
> >>>
> >>> hotmail.com <http://hotmail.com> <http://hotmail.com> (and
> live.com <http://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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> >
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> 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