Microsoft Servers Are Down, AGAIN

15. November 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , ,
I have not received any new Outlook email in my Kindle Fire HD email app since Nov. 6.  I went to isitdownrightnow.com to test my server name, blu-m.hotmail.com.  Not surprisingly, the site has been down since the 6th.  The same thing happened in August and Microsoft acknowledged the problem and they did fix the issue, temporarily.  Now, there is no acknowledgement of a systemwide problem they have to know exists.  Also, m.hotmail.com and s.outlook.com are down, also.  These are all Exchange servers, as far as I know.

Attachment downloads apparently from a foreign third party

04. November 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,
When I download an attached document in Outlook.com, the browser tells me it is downloading from bay172.afx.ms.  This is apparently a website registered in Montserrat (in the Carribean).  I don't know what organization AFX is.  Or is this the unfortunate result of someone in Microsoft thinking it would be cute to register microsoft servers at a country that has a code with the same two letters as an abbreviation for Microsoft?  If so, it seems like poor security practice, since the domain, and probably DNS servers, would be operated by a foreign entity, and could be redirected to another location.  Thanks for your help from anyone who might know about this.  - John

Yahoo Small Business mail servers and OUTLOOK.COM

29. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , , ,

After almost a year of great service, OUTLOOK.COM is now unable to access my domain account servers at Yahoo Small Business since August 1st.  This is a paid web hosting Yahoo service.  The servers are pop/smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com.  The error generated within OUTLOOK.COM is:

 

 "We couldn't sign in to your POP3 server. Please make sure your username and password are correct."

 

My user name and password are correct as evidenced by everything but OUTLOOK.COM being fully able to get my mail from these servers.  This includes my Outlook 2013 client on a W8 desktop and W8 Laptop, Windows Mail (from Windows 8), Windows Phone 8 mail account, SurfacePro (using both the client and the Mail app).  And, all the above use the same settings I've used with OUTLOOK.COM.

 

I've had quite literally a hundred suggestions from Microsoft sources on things to check, delete and re-add the account, change ports, etc.  The latest, from a "Level 2" tech from a ticket raised on www.support.microsoft.com is that "Microsoft servers and Yahoo servers are simply not going to be able to reliably communicate."

 

Can this be verified as Microsoft's position?  If so, then I feel like I've done the wrong thing investing so heavily in Microsoft Windows 8 products and I'll need to completely change all my OS, Mail and Phone schemes.  I'm begging for a solution and I would pay (in fact I have paid and they had to refund my money because what I bought doesn't cover the "free" OUTLOOK.COM service).

 

Help!

P.

Iphone not receiving email from microsoft servers again.

16. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
I can retrieve my emails from my computer but I cannot get them pushed correctly to my iphone again. On 8/14/13 my iphone stopped receiving emails. It then began to receive them the next day, but now again is not receiving emails and only shows emails from 4/2013 and earlier.

Microsoft, you are supposed to be a software company that should be able to prevent these issues. My emails are a critical component of my business!  I've had my email address forever, it may be time to avoid microsoft forever. The windows OS and phone OS and now email changes are not enticing products at all.

I need my emails back on my device, is that so hard Microsoft?