Comments on: Hotmail Drops Email Sent by Thunderbird

By: Chris Buckley

Chris Buckley — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:45:22 +0000

Great article! I have been having exactly the same problem for well over a year now. Like you state, if you use pine/mutt and same smtp the e-mail is delivered. Using Thunderbird, it is not. Conspiracy..?

As a result, I simply refuse to communicate with people using @hotmail.com. Why people use such an awful service, i have no idea.

By: chad

chad — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:11:34 +0000

mails from thunderbird seem to go straight to junk mail folder in hotmail account

By: Jason Daly

Jason Daly — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:19:13 +0000

Through script you can try adding the following header:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Note: Be sure to add the character set. I’m not sure if Thunderbird creates messages with the character set explicitly defined — if not this may help them.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:40:33 +0000

Galahs,

Does that mean that you can reply to a non-Hotmail message and then change the “To:” field to a Hotmail address, and it works?

–Dave

By: Galahs

Galahs — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:28:50 +0000

I have the exact same problem.

I can reply to emails sent to me from Hotmail, but I can’t Write and send a new message.

I have found that if I reply to any message (doesn’t matter who sent it), and then change the To: email address to the Hotmail account I want to send to, it then works. Strange.

I found that idea here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=435829

By: jdq

jdq — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:01:39 +0000

I am also having the same problem.

I started to get some hints here and there.

#1 hotmail sucks!

#2 i was able to get one message through (and by “through” i mean to the “spam” box.. even though I have my own private server that is on no blacklist, is pretty new, and has never spammed, has reverse lookup, etc.) — i did this by sending the email has html and text (which you can only do if you add some formatting, like color or something). However, I could not repeat this success

#3 i could not duplicate the “success” I had in #2 on subsequent tries

#4 hotmail / msn f$$king sucks!

#5 i just sent a plain text message from webmail (horde on my server) — it “arrived” to hotmail — but to spam box (Junk) — i stress, my IP address is incredibly “CLEAN” - never has been spammed from, not blacklisted

#6 hotmail, yes, hotmail, it bites, yes it does

By: John

John — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:51:52 +0000

I am having the exact same problem. I have a fedora 7 machine with qmail installed. I am on a dynamic ip so I user smtproutes with a patch that allows me to auth/pass to an external mail server for forwarding to the outside world. It works fine on all systems (gmail, yahoo, other domains) except hotmail.

Hotmail doesn’t receive my email if I use Thunderbird (Linux or Windows) but it will with mutt or sending from the command line.