Questions tagged [hotmail]

Outlook.com replaced Hotmail. Use the Outlook.com tag.

Hotmail was one of the first webmail services on the Internet in 1996. Microsoft acquired it in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and launched it as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of the Windows Live suite of products. Microsoft released the final version of Hotmail in October 2011 and it was replaced by Outlook.com in 2012.

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-ERR Exceeded the login limit for a 15 minute period. Reduce the frequency of requests to the POP3 server

using following code i have reading msg from my hotmail account . But sometimes the following error coming . -ERR Exceeded the login limit for a 15 minute period. Reduce the frequency of requests to the POP3 server . can anyone tell me whats the…
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Non Standard Web Address Format

We sent mails to customers in our application which has a link in it. In yahoo and Hotmail, whenever the customer clicks on the link it displays following warning alt text http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5402/warningp.jpg The URL is long…
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How can I programmatically access tasks in hotmail?

I would like to be able to programmatically access Hotmail tasks so I can keep resetting the reminder until the task is marked as complete. Does anyone know how to do this? I have seen that there is a Hotmail API here:…
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Swiftmailer SMTP Hotmail doesn't work

I try to send an e-mail with Swiftmailer. But it doesn't work... This is what I tried: $transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.life.com', 25) ->setUsername('olivier-zwat@hotmail.be') ->setPassword('the correct pasword'); I can't find…
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PHP Oauth API to login via Hotmail Account

Like a facebook , twitter, yahoo accounts, how we can login via MSN/Hotmail account instead to register for a new account? to get the username and save the data behalf this name, using php/mysql? Thank you for your suggestions.
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How to get count of unread emails from yahoo and hotmail

I want to get count of unread emails in yahoo and hotmail inbox, for gmail there is a simple way to do this i.e. via Gmail inbox feed. My question is how to get unread msgs count in hotmail and yahoo? Please tell me all alternatives. For now I only…
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Fake mail detection fails in google,yahoo,hotmail

What are the parameters used in spam detection? I mean it is possible to send an email from some fakemailserver.com server to gmail, and the mail goes directly into the inbox, I have tested it on Goole,Yahoo and Hotmail. A fake mail from…
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Importing contacts from hotmail on ipad gives server error after authentication

On one of our MVC4 .NET websites we're implementing a contact importer, using the webservice from stesCodes. Everything works fine, until we tried to import contacts from hotmail using an iPad.…
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Embedded Url Links in Hotmail

Hotmail auto-encodes embedded url links. It changes '!' to '%21' and thus it makes impossible for a customer who receives an email to follow the actual link. All other email clients render the correct url but hotmail makes a mess of it.. Is there a…
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Issue delivering email to hotmail inbox?

i am facing a problem of delivering email to hotmail inbox. my email is marked as spam and it is delivered to hotmail spam folder. My Code \r\n"; $header .= "Return-Path: info…
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Extract my contacts from hotmail/live

Possible Duplicate: Export contact list from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook I wonder if there is a possibility to extract contacts from Hotmail/Live with the API (in PHP). and if it's possbile to have a real example. Thank you .
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Sending emails using .Net

Possible Duplicate: Sending email in .NET through Gmail I don't know what is the apis needed to send emails using gmail and hotmail using .Net , if someone know it will be very useful for me also how to install those libraries into VS 2010
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Windows live api get email contact vs email hash

I am trying to get email contact from hotmail with php or javascript. I have read that windows live api return only hash of the email contact, and it is proved by the code example: http://isdk.dev.live.com/ISDK.aspx But some web site like facebook…
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Get contacts emails from Hotmail/Live

I've been tearing my hair out for a while now about the best way to get import a users email contacts from a variety of different services, I didn't manage to find a decent .net solution and have ended up creating an interface for the open source…
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Extract e-mail body from a hotmail page

I'm trying to build a Google Chrome extension that would insert some contextual information to the user under every e-mail. I'm basically trying to create something similar to a gmail contextual gadget, but for hotmail. I plan to achieve that by…
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