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Toto · 19-01-2005, 00:40

I thought I'd test something.

I've never been convinced that Hotmail are fully on top of their servers ability to deal with email, so I logged into my hotmail account, and sent an email to my ntlworld email address.

A well configured web based email server (tisk, tisk ntl, you know who you are) should include the senders IP address in the full email header, in order to track the network responsible for the IP address. I would expect Hotmail to include the the correct client IP address.

I was surprised to find that they did not include my ntl IP address, but the proxy server I am forced to connect through. But in fairness, I did the same thing with ntl's webmail service, and got the same cache address, not my client IP address, so they are as bad as each other.

I can summise from this then that Hotmail also has server problems, so this may not be an ntl issue.

BTW, I've never had the 404 problem with hotmail when collecting email on the ntl network.

I know it doesn't help you Alan, but I thought it might be good to get another users perspective on this.

19-01-2005, 00:40	#9
Toto Inactive Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3,403	Re: Mystified I thought I'd test something. I've never been convinced that Hotmail are fully on top of their servers ability to deal with email, so I logged into my hotmail account, and sent an email to my ntlworld email address. A well configured web based email server (tisk, tisk ntl, you know who you are) should include the senders IP address in the full email header, in order to track the network responsible for the IP address. I would expect Hotmail to include the the correct client IP address. I was surprised to find that they did not include my ntl IP address, but the proxy server I am forced to connect through. But in fairness, I did the same thing with ntl's webmail service, and got the same cache address, not my client IP address, so they are as bad as each other. I can summise from this then that Hotmail also has server problems, so this may not be an ntl issue. BTW, I've never had the 404 problem with hotmail when collecting email on the ntl network. I know it doesn't help you Alan, but I thought it might be good to get another users perspective on this.