When I attempt to access my email accounts, I am continuously brought to this screen. (Note: It may take a minute to load.) Even after populating the two requested fields, I am stuck in an endless loop. Have other SDopers experienced this? Has Outlook (formerly Hotmail) gone under?
Usually, this is a good idea, but I’m not sure why in this case cookies would be causing an issue. You’d think cookies would make the website recall my last visit. Wouldn’t that be a good thing in this instance?
Your link takes me to a homail/outlook signin screen, not your error message screen. However, I have an old hotmail acct & there’s one screen I sometimes can’t get past.
Doing this (at least the hotmail/live/outlook related ones always solves it for me.
IOW, Seconded.
Did you actually create a new username@outlook.com email address to replace your old username@hotmail.com address? And are you using that at the sign on screen? The hotmail.com sign-ons may stop working eventually. Any emails sent to it are supposed to still get forwarded to outlook.com though.
BTW, what’s the vBulletin code to stop anything.com from auto-hyperlinking?
You can’t stop it. Only the person reading the message can affect it. SMDB uses a service called viglink that automatically creates links while a user is reading the message in order to generate commissions. Users have reported it occasionally also modifies links, changing them to point to the same general type of thing on a different web site than the one you posted.
Yeah, hopefully forwarding will remain in force, but who knows. 5-10 years is an infinitely long time in the IT world and Microsoft might some day decide to retire Hotmail all together.
Something that effected me however, was that as of a month or so ago the Windows Live Mail program no longer works with Hotmail or Outlook.com. I switched, first to the Windows Mail App in Windows 8.1 then to Windows 10 altogether and I found that, with both of those newer Microsoft email client apps, they will still retrieve email from a Hotmail account & ID but they will not **send **anything from them. I had to create and use an outlook.com ID and sign-on to be able to send mail from the Microsoft email programs.
The outlook app on my phone did that, it would receive but everything sat in “Outbox” folder & wouldn’t send no matter what. There were a few emails that I left there rather than bothering to delete. They all sent yesterday & now the app is working just fine to send emails again. (I kept it because it would receive notifications faster than what I got as a replacement, BlueMail).
I’d be interested to know what happens if you try it again.
This definitely seemed permanent. Every time I tried to send it would show the message: ‘There is a problem with username@hotmail.com right now’ and every message that was created with my Hotmail address wouldn’t send. I recreated them using my outlook.com account and they sent immediately. This all happened a day after I got an email from Microsoft saying that Hotmail would soon stop working with Live Mail. I had gotten these messages before so I waited until it actually stopped working.