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I've just discovered after migrating to mozilla thunderbird email client a few weeks ago, hotmail is actually blocking message originating from thunderbird - not putting into the junk folder - COMPLETING DELETING THE EMAIL BEFORE IT ARRIVES!
Insert HTML formatting in message and vary message contents.
Factors:
It looks like a Baysian e-mail filter between Bell Sympatico and Hotmail is
being used to automatically delete e-mail messages. They DO NOT show up in
the Junk E-mail folder on the hotmail account.
Baysian filters use a technology that weights a number of factors to
determine if a message will be sent. +1 represents likelyhood of
uccess. -1 represents likelyhood of failure. If you score low on too many
chategories, the e-mail will be deleted.
E-mail program:
getemail.sympatico.ca +2 (likely success)
sitemail.netnation.com +2
univmail.mcmaster.ca +2
Any web browser based e-mail source: +2
Outlook Express 0
Mozilla Thunderbird -1 (likely failure)
Message Format:
HTML +1 (likely success)
Plain Text -1 (likely failure)
Message Contents:
Repeat of previous message -1 (likely failure)
Different message contents +1 (likely success)
Overly simple message -1 (likely failure)
Ex of overly simple message, Subject: "Test", Body: "Test"
Reply to Message Sent from Hotmail: +10
(Replies to messages sent from Hotmail almost always go through.)
If the score is high, the message will go through. If you score too low,
the message to hotmail will be deleted.
As you can see, if the user agent is thunderbird, the likelihood of the message being deleted goes up. Incidentally, this seems to be isolated to hotmail alone (ok this raises just a touch of a conspiracy theory, given their crap competing email program, outlook express).
can you even configure thunderbird to hotmail , never kenw that. none the less i just abandoned my hotmail accounts i got tired of it, the webmail application is far too slow, the new messenger isn't too good, msn has cocked up a bit lately
gmail is great. i'm currently using hotmail and gmail, and gmail is quicker and more efficient. the extra space is nice to have as well.
let me know if you want an invite!
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, never kenw that. none the less i just abandoned my hotmail accounts i got tired of it, the webmail application is far too slow, the new messenger isn't too good, msn has cocked up a bit lately 
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