# Weird Problems with Hotmail last night.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-problems-with-hotmail-last-night/60808>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 4, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-problems-with-hotmail-last-night/60808 "2001-04-04T18:24:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Doubleclick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Doubleclick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubleclick)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-problems-with-hotmail-last-night/60808/1 "2001-04-04T18:24:01Z")

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Did anyone else here have problems with their HotMail service last night?

I was told to expect an email to my HotMail account, but I never got it.

I then sent one myself from my home account and it too never showed up.

I sent another and another…still nothing.

I then called a buddy and asked him to check his account. I then sent a message to my HM account can CCed my buddy’s HM account. He didn’t get it, nor did I.

I was using Outlook Express to check HotMail and I got nothing but “Unknown Error”. I then logged on to the website…and I was lucky if I could get on! (“Destination unreachable” and all that nonsence.)

I tried again when I got in to work this morning…and voila! My message from my work email came in…

So…if I am now getting emails to my Hotmail account…what happened to all the ones that were sent last night??? I didn’t get any read recipts saying undeliverable…so do they just vanish?

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**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-problems-with-hotmail-last-night/60808/2 "2001-04-04T19:21:41Z")

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Yeah, I had a lot of trouble getting into Hotmail. I couldn’t get into it via [hotmail.com](http://hotmail.com). I had to go through [msn.com](http://msn.com) but it worked fine after that, although I just checked mail and didn’t send anything.

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**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-problems-with-hotmail-last-night/60808/3 "2001-04-05T04:23:12Z")

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I, too, had trouble late last night/early morning. Same thing–I was sending e-mails and I was supposed to be recieving them but neither was happening. Don’t know why.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-problems-with-hotmail-last-night/60808/4 "2001-04-05T11:23:43Z")

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**mongrel\_8** , thanks a lot, mate! I haven’t been able to get into Hotmail for two days now. Can now, though. Your tip about going in via [msn.com](http://msn.com) was great! Thanks a mil!