Firefox sending e-mail to Hotmail

Useing Firefox ver 1.5.0.6 or Thunderbird 0.4
Should I beable to send email to a Hotmail account ? Reading the FAQ's can not tell for sure and I can not do so. Useing Thunderbird I would be loged into my ISP mail account "Sysmatrix.net ".

Added: I use Win98se but dont think that will make a difference.

 

I don't see any reason why you can't send email to a hotmail account. Have you any error/bounce messages from your mail client or ISP? Have you tried more than one hotmail account? Try mine, I'll pm it to you.

 

I can not send to my brother, or 2 sons, or one I made. There are no errors returned or notice of undelivery. I can send with outlook or IE with no problem.

I sent a test to your account, at my end it said delivered.

Thanks for your help.

Added: just to let you know have tryed Linux Knoppix some time ago with Firefox ver ?? also did not work.

 

I didn't get your test.
I sent one of my own to the email you PMed.
I am on FF 1.5.0.6 too
I have not had any problems myself with hotmail inside firefox.

 

There is an unconfirmed bug on this problem:

Mail sent to Hotmail doesn't arrive

 

David Ryan- I did receive your test email.

Ramona - thanks for the link

Will try installing Firefox on a different comp, change my ISP phone # and my modem on this comp latter today.

 

changed phone # and modem still will not send. Tryed my backup comp and it sends sometimes. So guess will have to use IE and outlook express for hotmail accounts.

 

I have sent e-mails to a young man, in the military, who is going to Iraq. He uses an @hotmail.com account. And, I received replies. I had been using my ISP, @cox.net account in Thunderbird1.5.0.5.
I don't understand why IE or Firefox should matter, unless I use the webmail of my e-mail account. It is possible that the ISP does not support Thunderbird.
I cannot understand why there is a problem.

 

Do you know if your recipeints scan the Spam folders to look for e-mail that may get misdirected due to some phrasing in the subject or address? That happened to a friend of mine. Just a possiblility.

 

Virginia,
it would be a distinct possibility. It happened when I sent e-mails to a friend usin AOL Communicator. The Security program(spam assassin) which was part of his ISP, was giving a score to e-mails, with negatives about sending HTML mail, and using an unknown mail client, and blocking the mail. The same e-mail, when sent from a standard mail client and in plain text made it, easily.

 

After more tests and hair pulling.
On Sat. after trying to send to hotmail via my ISP mail server several times with FF & TB , I could not even send with IE & OE, no program would give any errors.
I updated OE from ver 5.5 to 6 and now it will work but IE,FF still do not.
Have not tried TB in case it messes up OE from working again.
Leads me to think a common software problem way beyond my knowlege.

I did try to send a message to "David Ryan pri post" via my ISP and he did not receive it but I did receive his message to me. So it is not a receiving problem but a sending failure.

Now if I log onto my Yahoo account IE and FF will send to Hotmail.
Can only send with OE and TB via my ISP mail account. Yahoo and Hotmail are the free accounts.

All the messages are simple , subject "Program/server" = Program =FF or IE and server is Sysmatrix or Yahoo and in the text it is just "TEST "

If you want to try my hotmail user name is oldfarmer52 , I made the account only to test problem.


When I send the e-mail is there a program "free" that will capture the data sent ?

 

What you say is very confusing. There is no way to send any Webmail like Hotmail or Yahoo with your ISP server, unless you set up an account in a Mail Client. So, it makes sense that Outlook Express worked. You should be able to send from IE or Firefox, from the Website, although there are restrictions from Microsoft, which do not exist for Yahoo. If you go to yahoo.com, you can loginn in IE and Firefox, but cannot do it in Outlook Express or Thunderbird.
I you type hotmail.com in Firefox, you will get the login page for Hotmail .
It is not a good idea to give out your username, and, as you well know an username is useless with no password.
If you want to set up Hotmail in a mail client, which is neither Firefox nor IE, but rather Outlook Express or Thunderbird, it is a different story.
Since Hotmail is a Microsoft product, it is not surprising that you could get it in OE. With Thunderbird, you would need a third party program, like Freepops .
This is the best that I can do, but you will need to tell us how you want to access Hotmail, and keep in mind that it is a Webmail account first.
With Freepops, you may not be able to send mail, unless your ISP allows it.