Hotmail bounces Gmail invitations

22 Jun, 2004 at 2:14pm ET Article published in Tech

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   22 Jun 2004 ~ 2:22pm Omega65 HardOCP has some further info
   

   Hotmail & GMail:
   I have gotten more than a few emails from Hotmail users that call BS on the Slashdot story we linked earlier. They are telling us that GMail invites are coming across just fine on their hotmail accounts. Here is a statement from someone that would know too, but wants to stay anonymous. They have proven to be a credible source in the past.
   
   A while back Hotmail had some problems with mail from Google, not just Gmail, but anything from their IP range. It got sorted out with a workaround we put in place. Essentially a hack to our own filters to expressly allow anything from Google’s IP range. I can tell you it was an extremely high priority for us to fix that problem, because we knew exactly what kind of PR fiasco it could turn into. I also know this latest bit on Slashdot is crap because I received a Gmail invite to my Hotmail account just last week. This is just more conspiracy theory run wild. Also keep in mind that if the mail does “bounce”, that’s a good thing, because it means it’s being handled properly (assuming it bounced for a legitimate reason, like account over quota) and that it didn’t just “disappear into the ether”.
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   22 Jun 2004 ~ 3:01pm croc_ Sometimes when I recieve mail from hotmail users to my gmail acct. they get sent to my "spam" folder and I have to mark them as "not spam" lol.
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   22 Jun 2004 ~ 11:41pm Bud i got my invite through hotmail and it worked fine
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   23 Jun 2004 ~ 12:45pm DanG My invite came fine to my hotmail account.
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   23 Jun 2004 ~ 6:02pm shwaip [jumps on bandwagon]
   
   mine was fine too.
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   25 Jun 2004 ~ 6:45pm kamikaze.egg@gmail.com me too