Hello,
The email address that you sent me does not appear to be an active email address.
Is it possible that it used to be working and was deactivated?
I'd hope that for a temporary problem the Hotmail servers would not be 5xx rejecting incoming email messages.
> telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25
Trying 65.54.244.8...
telnet: connect to address 65.54.244.8: Connection refused
Trying 65.54.245.8...
Connected to mx1.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 bay0-mc9-f10.bay0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk e-mail to Microsoft's computer network is prohibited. Other restrictions are found at
http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations will result in use of equipment located in California and other states. Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:05:42 -0800
helo emailquestions.com
250 bay0-mc9-f10.bay0.hotmail.com (3.8.0.31) Hello [66.202.109.26]
mail from:<test@emailquestions.com>
250
test@emailquestions.com....Sender OK
rcpt to:<username@hotmail.com>
550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
I sanitized the address and made it username@ like the conversation above.
-Raymond