Update: Hotmail outage hits Apple and broadband users

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Following up on a story from Tuesday, Tom Sanders writes
on vnunet.com:

[snip]

A problem with Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN email service is preventing users from multiple providers from sending 
messages to the Microsoft email services.

Users of the Mail application in Apple's OS X operating system on Monday started reporting that email messages 
addressed at Hotmail and MSN addresses weren't being delivered. The problem doesn't occur if a copy of the message is 
sent to the user's own account. Changing the priority setting from 'normal' to either high or low also provides a 
workaround, users reported on the forum.

Microsoft was made aware of the issues with the Apple users by vnunet.com on Monday. The company acknowledged the 
problem and said it has been working on a solution. As of Wednesday afternoon there was still no fix and Microsoft 
couldn't provide any background information on what was causing the problems.

Subscribers of the Comcast broadband internet service reported similar issues last week. The provider started blocking 
all outgoing email sent to Hotmail and MSN accounts after these messages were queuing up on their servers. The issue 
was resolved on October 20, as vnunet.com reported earlier this week.

[snip]

Today:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2144972/hotmail-outage-hits-apple

Tuesday:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2144708/provider-blocks-emails-sent

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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