Hotmail

[Pint]

Ive just booted up my laptop and gone to go on my emails and it came up saying hotmail was unsafe so wouldn't open it. That was in chrome. Tried in Firefox and that said it was an unsafe connection.

Has something changed that I don't know about and my googling skills are that bad or do i have an issue on my laptop?

All other sites load fine. Only hotmail has issues.

 

[Euan94]

I've been getting this as well so just logging in on the windows live webpage hotmail used to redirect to now.

I'm guessing they've closed the hotmail link or something, thought I have no idea.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Hotmail has been complete waff for at least 15 years.

Gmail FTW.

 

[Jonnio]

Tried outlook.com?

 

[MRBILLYUK]

Working fine for me in Chrome and Firefox . I used Maxthon as my main browser , it's working fine on there too .

 

[Keydogg]

I've been getting this since the last Chrome update. Weird!

 

[DOHC-kinda-guy]

If your tech savy you can flush your DNS and see if it helps...

Hold windows key and press "R" , then type CMD and and press enter, then type "ipconfig /flushdns" and press enter.

This sometimes will fix this problem because your computer will store DNS and if the DNS is updated then it's trying to access a Secure site (HTTPS) with an old DNS...

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Good opportunity to move to gmail

 

[CrippsCorner]

My girlfriend has this a while back, I think it was because Microsoft updated some security thing. Can you not click through and get on it to? I think she had to acknowledge something, been fine since.

 

[becsh]

I had this last week, use outlook.com instead worked straight away

 

[dk]

Just had a certificate error using the mail app on my iPad, wonder whether ms are messing around with the certificates, the certificate I saw didn't mention Microsoft something about cloud instead.

 

[Cooperate]

Yeah you have to use Outlook. Com from now on

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

I was surprised people used Hotmail 10 years ago. I'm now amazed it still exists!

 

[dk]

nothing wrong with Hotmail. ive used it for years and don't have any issues with it. Bit like using outlook web access anyway these days, its one of those things that gets a bad rep but its served me well for nearly 20 years.

 

[Adamm.]

I've always used hotmail, have a gmail though. Would it be advised to use the gmail and make my hotmail redundant then?

 

[Leel82]

Gmails a far superior mailing client! Usually alot less spam and afaik theres no IMAP support for hotmail! I couldnt live without IMAP!

 

[Adamm.]

Gmails a far superior mailing client! Usually alot less spam and afaik theres no IMAP support for hotmail! I couldnt live without IMAP!

Fair enough, only thing I'd be concerned about is security tbh. Don't really have any trouble with spam and it does everything I need to do.

What is IMAP? Lol.

 

[Leel82]

Theyre all as secure as one another id say bud IMAP... the easiest way of explaining it is, when I read an email on my android, it also marks it as read on outlook in the office, and mail on my galaxy tab meaning you dont have several "unread" mail showing when youve already read em. also folders sync across the devices too!

 

[dk]

Gmails a far superior mailing client! Usually alot less spam and afaik theres no IMAP support for hotmail! I couldnt live without IMAP!

why do you need IMAP?

i use hotmail with my iPad, and my iPhone through the built in apps, what more do i need?

i keep my work outlook for work email personally.

 

[dk]

Theyre all as secure as one another id say bud IMAP... the easiest way of explaining it is, when I read an email on my android, it also marks it as read on outlook in the office, and mail on my galaxy tab meaning you dont have several "unread" mail showing when youve already read em. also folders sync across the devices too!

pop does this fine on an iPhone, when i read or delete messages on there, they are the same in hotmail?

 

[BoatNonce]

Never had a problem with hotmail. EVER.

PICNIC.

 

[dk]

there just seems to be a stigma attached to hotmail, all the cool kids use gmail, i have a gmail account, still prefer my hotmail though, especially now its running outlook.com too, much better, i seem to get more spam in my gmail than i do my hotmail too, i have thousands of spam in my spam folder in hotmail, so i know its very good at sorting it out.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Outlook is fine... tried Gmail for a while but in all honesty I didn't get on with it.

 

[Alan]

There are other mail services other than Me/iCloud and Gmail ?

 

[Al_G]

I've had an msn account for 15 years, no issues, non at all.

 

[Keydogg]

Hotmail is brilliant. I have a Gmail account but have no idea why people rave about Gmail, it's no different really.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

I've had a hotmail account for about 10 years. Had my gmail 4 years, gmail is now my main one