Travel Technology - Hotmail - can't send email to yourself anymore?

While travelling and using a public computer, if I come across some useful information, I'll often log into my Hotmail junk mail account and shoot off the link in a mail to myself at the same address so that I have it saved for future reference. I did that this morning and noticed that I still haven't received the mail in my account - not in the Inbox, not in the Junk Mail folder. So I compose another quick mail to myself in the same hotmail account and send it off to myself again.....and again - nothing!! It works fine if I send/receive mail to/from any other account, but I cannot mail myself anymore. The last time I was succesful in doing this was last week.

I logged into my second Hotmail account and tried sending a mail to that second account and it works as it should, so it obviously is not affecting everyone.

Anybody else expeirence this lately? Is this going to be a new feature of Hotmail's "upgrade"?

It's only slightly more inconvenient to have multiple hotmail accounts if this is what they want to force you to do...

Or you could send to your hotmail account from your free Yahoo account...

I, too, suddenly stopped being able to send emails to myself from my own hotmail account. I was also getting emails from some people on Hotmail but not others! There was no rhyme nor reason to it, and the messages were definitely not going into my junk email folder which I check several times a day. They were just not arriving at all.

I had numerous email exchanges with Hotmail online technicians, and none of their suggested solutions were at the root of it (I had no auto-forwarding of emails, no rules set up for filtering emails, no Reply-to address set up for my account). And people were not getting any bounceback messages from my account, so they didn't know anything was wrong and that I had not received their emails.

I had also put my own email address in my Safe Senders list, something which would seem pretty ridiculous to do, but I had done it at their suggestion, and this, too, didn't help me receive my own emails.

Then they suggested I set my Junk email setting from "Exclusive" to "Standard", something which I didn't want to do, since I'd had that setting like that for years and hadn't had any issues (and the setting was keeping my inbox clean - again, I check my Junk email folder several times a day to catch anything that's not junk).

I humored them and changed the setting to "Standard" and sent an email to myself, which I received! I then set it back to "Exclusive" and sent an email to myself, and I received it! Coincidentally, I then received an email a minute later from a person with a Hotmail account that had been trying to email me the past few days to no avail.

So my conclusion is that something changed on the Hotmail side recently, and my "Exclusive" setting in my Junk email filtering options had stopped me from receiving certain emails from certain Hotmail accounts (but not others, go figure) including my own. Undoing and redoing the setting unstuck whatever was stuck.

I hope this post can help someone else who may have been going as batty as I.

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I put info I need later in DRAFTS , then I do not have to search down thru 100s of emails....

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The other day, I sat down at a computer at a friends house and went to check my hotmail. I received a message that 'hotmail does not recognize this computer'. It was asking for a code that it would send to my office email (that I have no access to at that house) or to a couple of phone #s I have listed with them.
So what happens when I am sitting in a hotel lounge in HKG and want to check my hotmail on thier computer. I can't receive an email and have no access to a domestic cell or landline phone call.

Am I correct then that hotmail is useless in this situation and I would be out of luck until I returned to the US? If this is the case, is there an email address to question hotmail about this?

I just added a gmail account for them to send me a 'code' so I don't have to rely on my office email as a backup. To me this is just another stupid 'security fix' that causes more porblems than it solves. It seems no one thinks these changes through before implementing them.

Uh...people still use Hotmail?

Uh...people still use Hotmail?

Uh, yes. Over 350 million of them.

Uh, yes. Over 350 million of them.

Well, I have a hotmail address from years ago. I haven't used it in years, but I'll bet they count me as one of their 350 million plus users, too.

To the OP: Can you find your email in sent items? Is that sufficient for you?

The other day, I sat down at a computer at a friends house and went to check my hotmail. I received a message that 'hotmail does not recognize this computer'. It was asking for a code that it would send to my office email (that I have no access to at that house) or to a couple of phone #s I have listed with them.
So what happens when I am sitting in a hotel lounge in HKG and want to check my hotmail on thier computer. I can't receive an email and have no access to a domestic cell or landline phone call.

Ouch! I wonder what's going to happen next time I'm in PVG.

The other day, I sat down at a computer at a friends house and went to check my hotmail. I received a message that 'hotmail does not recognize this computer'. It was asking for a code that it would send to my office email (that I have no access to at that house) or to a couple of phone #s I have listed with them.
So what happens when I am sitting in a hotel lounge in HKG and want to check my hotmail on thier computer. I can't receive an email and have no access to a domestic cell or landline phone call.

Stories like this makes me glad I've stuck with basic but reliable yahoo! Email.

Well, I have a hotmail address from years ago. I haven't used it in years, but I'll bet they count me as one of their 350 million plus users, too.

If you haven't accessed it in over a year, you'll probably find that it no longer exists...