Well, I no longer have access to that email, have not for 5 years now.  So how do I change my alternate email address?

Everything I try to add to the account for verification purposes (a phone number, another email) well they all have to be approved by an email account that no longer exists.

If this has to do with hacking, then just say so.  I can move to another provider...  Since hacking is why I want to change all of this information anyway.

(IE: Your measures are just affecting the good members, at least from my perspective.)

All well, let me know what's up.  I can easily move over to G-mail or something more user friendly...

PS: You guys aren't hacking me to get me to upgrade to your pay-for e-mail?  Like I would pay for this type of service (HA!)
Added an iPhone with email and now MacBook Pro Outlook will not send/receive. Error message: "outlook doesn't support any of the available authentication methods".  Bellsouth is the internet service provider.  Neither they nor Verizon could help.  Next steps?  All worked fine until the phone was added. Another person who has PC added an iPad with email with no issues.  Same family and week.

 "or else" my account will be deleted? and when I click on the link it asks me to login to my email provider? I smell scam. some one confirm if this is legit.

 

here is the text of the email:

 

"Dear [*** Email address is removed for privacy ***]:

Mail is holding the message you sent because your email address is not verified.

Please click on the link below. This will take you to a verification page. verification is a one-time process which takes only a few seconds.


verification: <Link deleted>

Please be aware that if you do not complete verification within 4 days, Mail will automatically deactivated this Email [*** Email address is removed for privacy ***].

Thank you,
Web Admin

29/6/2012"

 

Oddly enough the first sentence "Mail is holding the message you sent because your email address is not verified" was the tip off since I have not sent anything on Hotmail in some time.

My previous email provider would show how many megabytes each email was.   I liked that and miss it.   Can't seem to get it with hotmail.  Help!
Thankyou!
I can open Windows Live Mail and see new un-read messages added to my inbox from my comcast.net email provider. When I click on them to open them, nothing happens, no error message, nothing. If I then try closing Windows Live Mail, opening Sent Items, opening Contacts, all are frozen and do not respond at all. Sometimes I get a "Windows Live Mail not responding" message. I have to re-start my computer in order to close the WLM program.