[LINK] did I miss decommissioning of Hotmail

Mon Sep 1 19:24:01 AEST 2025

S3150 means that the sending IP address is blacklisted.

You need to talk to your ISP/email provider.

Presuming it's the same IP your last email to this list went through, I can
see it on at least 2 blacklists - those likely aren't directly related to
Hotmail blocking, but they show a pattern...
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a203.132.1.1

  Scott

On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au>
wrote:

> 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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> > >>>
> > >
> > -- Marghanita da Cruz
> > Telephone: 0414-869202
> > Email: marghanita at ramin.com.au
> > Website: http://ramin.com.au
> >
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