So I try to log into a Hotmail account from my work computer. Tells me I have to enter a code that they will send to the alternate address. In Excel, this is referred to as a circular reference. Calling one cell from another that refers to the cell you are entering data into. Anyone that claims that Hotmail is free is full of crap. Nothing is free, using a Hotmail account is just one more way that MS makes money by advertising.
MS would loose billions in advertising dollars if everyone cancelled their Hotmail account. Fortunately both Hotmail accounts are junk accounts used to register for access to things that you know are going to result in hundreds of spam messages. I have a real account with real security for real email.
Time to delete the Hotmail accounts and open new junk accounts with someone else cus Microsoft sucks. One of the reasons that I use Outlook. Everyone needs an ISP to connect to the Internet from home or work.
Every ISP provides subscribers with free email addresses. The MS Code system to protect email accounts provides excellent security and requires a minimal amount of user input to manage it effectively. Well done Microsoft…!! I use the email service provider ProtonMail. I use 3 or 4 recovery emails per account. One is not enough. Gmail does exactly the same stupid thing.
There is an easy fix to this problem, simply a tiered security query. First password, and then if their are issues ie. If providers are really worried, put in a third tier. But just locking the account is complete BS, I agree with previous posters. Email accounts that lock when you travel are so useless as to be almost a fraudulent service. I live in Canada.
My girlfriend has just had her account locked in Japan. She chose the hotel, because it advertises WiFi access, which works well. This is complete nonsense, which borders on fraud. Her air ticket and trip data are on her email. This is just lazy, stupid nonsense. Proper design, with tiered security access, would not need operate this way. Being locked out in this manner is no different that being hacked, and having all your email damaged or deleted.
The net-effect to the user is basically the same. And I also agree with another poster. The solution here is to use some kind of private file-sharing approach, or set up your own domain-specific email.
Email services which operate as Gmail does now, are deeply dishonest, and so useless to travellers as to be dangerous. It would be good if the operator of this site provide actionable solution information to this very real problem.
A list of working replacements would be nice to see. I set up two outlook accounts, which seemed just fine…until I logged in from a different ip address while using my VPN.
After unblocking with security codes and phone numbers, it happened again, then again. One account is now blocked for 30 days.
After doing some research, last night I hit on what may be a workable solution. So I set up two Yandex webmail accounts, used IMAP to plug them into my mail client Thunderbird , and then logged into them from multiple locations in the US, and then from Canada, with no problems.
The only glitch seems to be that the Thunderbird folders are labeled in Russian. Oh well. One possible use for a Yandex account could be to open one specifically as an alternative recovery email for your Hotmail, Gmail or whichever email account you might be using.
One of them is a relatively unknown email provider similar in that way to Yandex which has no lockout security. That seems safer to me than relying on using something like Yandex as my primary email address.
I expect Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo to be around longer than some of those other email providers. Ultimately the best thing to do is to buy a domain and get your own email attached to it. If you use a service like Hostgator, 1and1, or Godaddy you will have access to an account to manage all the emails you want. My only advice is to pick a service that has good phone tech support. Then you never have to worry about losing an email address. You could even route it through Gmail to take advantage of their great spam filters.
Not necessarily, if you so much as log onto hotmail from a new device it thinks someone is hacking you…and that is overkill. I would contact Microsoft if I thought my account was hacked. I am locked out of accounts at least once every couple months and it is completely inconvenient. That seems a little much. We had a similar issue when in France on holidays, km away from home.
No Hotmail accessible in a similar way as stated here. The server works on Debian, so the risk to get compromised is extremely low and we have a full and excellent back feature. So I do not surf through it only pick my mail. You have no server at home? Let it boot from a live USB that either already has Teamviewer on board, or make a persistent USB stick meaning it can save the settings, even when you reboot… use Google how to do that and run Teamviewer and add your PC to your account and protect it with a good password.
Now you can access this system at any time at any place in the world for checking your mail. Teamviewer is free for private use. You can do that also with your desktop, but these are generally very hungry in energy.. My systems uses about 20 W. Laptops are a good alternative, 2nd hand or your old laptop could be cheap options. Or try my suggestion. Safemail : good option, free up til 3 MB quota.
So useful for small talks… else pay for extra services. A very cheap alternative is to use a raspberry-pi! It is low cost in getting it, very well supported by the community and cheap in energy.
After your holidays… you can use it for domestic tasks… remote control. I use GMX. Or a possibly simpler way, set up a Hotmail recovery code. Sie haben versucht, sich mit der IP-Adresse Diese IP-Adresse ist nicht zugelassen.
PS: on public wifi.. How do you solve that mail access problem on public wifi e. What I did find with GMX is that it was only possible to open a GMX account with the country domain of the country you were in at the time. To be honest, I hate Hotmail. That causes Hotmail to constantly be blocking my account and asking to verify it was me.
I only maintain Hotmail just to have it and even then it drives me crazy. You could read already my comfortable solution. Using the mentioned Rasb-Pi in a similar way may be a very attractive solution for others….
A couple of extra steps is the reason why no one will use it any more. Yes the major email providers are being a major pain over their psuedo security. I experienced it 1st in Hong Kong after having no problem there the previous year on Hotmai. I then opened Yahoo acount and had a fiasco in the Philippines this spring coz 1 asked for the other for verification and vice-vers and so I was effectively cut off completely.
Just to add eBay do the same thing to you! I have an account with the 3 major free providers. I find GMail to be more forgiving in allowing you to access your email in another country.
For verification, I only had to enter my mobile phone number. Their security assumed that if I knew the cell number, the account was mine. That seems like an adequate security measure to me. So the genuis that introduced these secruity measures can give themselves a pat on the back for developing a system that completely blocks people out of their own email!
I set up a laptop for a friend who had Hotmail. She would access it at work mostly or at my home. She quit that job and starts a new one soon but wanted internet at home too. Unfortunately Hotmail blocks her account and asks for another email addy so we used mine and got the code. Unless you have all these extra accounts with MS you can not recover your Hotmail account when at a different computer anymore. I am only 20 Km from where she worked, not in a different country or state.
Go Figure. She now has no choice but to walk away from MS. And what an ugly way to go about it. One thing which might work in addition to what Leo says here: Open a GMail account. Route your Hotmail through GMail. When you travel, GMail will continue to pick up your Hotmail. You can choose whether to switch to using GMail as your main account or simply to manage your Hotmail. How can Microsoft be so dumb?. When we travel we may not have the same number.
Even if I answer all security questions they dont give me access. Such a pity. Microsoft puts their worst performers in hotmail team. That could be the only reason. The architect who envisioned this is one reason why companies fail. Setting up recovery email addresses will also work. Security is a good thing but MS took things waaaaaay too far! Getting the security codes is already very annoying: they know I have the password right and it comes from a know machine. That they next keep on forcing me to change my password is driving me completely crazy.
Please MS, stop being so overprotective! And if I wish to revert to a password I used before, it is my responsibility, right? Please stop treating me like a kid…. Micro Gone soft In the head!
Maybe one day!! Rant over back to good old NTL world ,. Virgin Media ,… Signed NomadMally. Go figure…. I find that simply taking a deep breath, and slowly reading through the recovery options eventually gets me back into my Hotmail account.
The outlook team is somehow not intelligent enough to solve this problem. I live in Europe and as I travel throuh the US the most stupid thing ever happened to me, I could not lock on to my email account in outlook.
So how the hell can I get hold on the code. Please contract more intellegent than you got at the moment, They will sure be not able to solve thi problem, have a nice day!! Am somewhat surprised MS does not have this functionality. When trying to login, I was asked too many personal questions and feared my identity was being stolen. If you set up a recovery email account, you should have no trouble getting into your account when you travel.
I have a few alternate recovery accounts. One of them is softhome. You can also set up a recovery code and keep it in a safe place. I just want to join in on the Microsoft Bashing. If your password is something stupid like mike you fail. I also threw away my Xbox and Got a PS4. Microsoft if filthy. Their customer service is also garbage and keeps responding to my question with the same information I give them.
I sympathise with the comments. How much would anyone pay for something anyone could think up. Some rekon you get what you pay for but why would any sane person pay for a premium service when the basic one is becoming so crap.
Had issues last July with a winter escape to Fiji. Wifi was very limited and only took my ph as travelling light. Changing from email to sms with ultra slow internet that keeps dropping out is hopeless.
Travelling NZ to Sydney in a couple of days. Hopefully fully prepared for this as have practice when visiting Mum and Dad 10 min drive up the road. Dear Mike, I travel for work and I am always abroad hence me needing mobility and emails in the first place..
So I am now screwed completely and unable to contact either yahoo or hotmail to direclty fix the issue. The question I have for you is then, how did you fix yours? Is there a number to call, an email address or a building to blow up to get some attention here? I am on a European holiday and moving from country to country every few days. Soon as I land in the new location I am locked out of my Hotmail account. Yes, I have access to all prior emails but if any one in the country that I have arrived in, wants to tell me that there has been a cancellation of my booking or any other change then I have to wait 24 hours until I have completed the verification process before I can know about the change.
And every time I have to answer the same list of questions. I have been a Hotmail user for around 20 years. Microsoft have been receiving these complaints for many years now and have done nothing about it. Sorry Hotmail but I cannot take this risk that I will miss a critical travel email with you anymore. I am off to Gmail. Okay, so my account was reset this time in much less than 24 hours, maybe two or three.
I had to change my password again and no doubt will have to do so twice more in the next week as my holiday progresses. Every time I change my password I have to change it in my Apple mail account and in my Samsung phone.
Gmail does not seem to require this level of messing around just because I am on holidays. There really should be a setting to allow me to tell them I am on holidays and not to block my account. I am sticking with my decision to move to Gmail.
I mainly use it as an alternate email address to authenticate my other accounts when necessary, but it can be used as your main freemail provider.
So I expect them to be around for a while. So is Gmail, and any of the other free services. The catch is that the account has to be set up properly. All recovery features set, tested, and kept up-to-date. Suddenly they are cut off of their accounts and have very little recourse. Mark and I have done numerous tests while traveling. We have even set up new Hotmail accounts with no recovery and then on purpose got ourselves locked out. Once I had someone back home simply log in and authenticate, and I was back in business.
I set my VPN location o Munich, and many sites are blocked like Netflix and Comcast, along with some mail, and my news sites are in German. VPN is not the solution to all problems but they do work. The problem we are having during overseas business trips as regards hotmail accounts can be solved easily by just add an extra very sensitive password requested only when the person arrived in a new country, which means that every country he visited he must applied for a new password, thus, when he returned back home he need to get back to his original password.
Yes I was surprised when my Hotmail account was blocked when travelling. I had been using for years on various holidays abroad. I do not use a cell phone and my security number was my home land line. I tried the security questions and was able to answer questions but this was only because I use the account regularly; I was also lucky to access my gmail account which I do not use in normal circumstances.
There also seemed to be an assumption that I had an x box or had registered my credit card with MS!!! I was hoping to add my tablet as a trusted device but the feature does not seem to be available for an android tablet which is a shame. Literally just crossed from Thailand to burma right next to each other and it happens again! This is a relatively new feature of Hotmail that was created to help with the huge problem of hacking. More than likely, in the future, Microsoft will suddenly change things again.
You can unsubscribe at any time. More info. Your Microsoft Hotmail or Outlook. The most likely cause of a blocked account is unusual sign-in activity. Although getting your account blocked is frustrating, access can be arranged by following these simple steps.
Begin by visiting Microsoft Live to recover your account and reset your password. Enter the email address of your blocked account and enter the characters you see on your screen and select Next. Enter the code generated by your authenticator app or select Use a different verification option to get a text message. After you enter the security code, you'll need to change your password to complete the unblocking process. There could be several reasons if you still cannot sign in to your Outlook account, from forgetting your password, to travelling, or using a new device.
If you remember your password but it is not working, make sure that Caps Lock is turned off and your email address is spelled correctly. If these don't help get you back in to your account, try resetting your password or see if one of the other scenarios below applies to you and give them a try.
The account recovery form works by asking questions about your account that only you could answer. In the Current password field, enter your old password.
In the Password and Confirm new password fields, enter the new password you wish to use. Tip: Press to find out the password policy, including what …. About a month ago I started getting locked out of Hotmail. At first I thought a friend was playing a trick by attempting too many passwords, locking my account, and I ignored it. The account lockout policy is made up of three key security settings: account lockout duration, account lockout threshold and reset account lockout counter after.
These policy settings help It indicates that account lockout is turned off. Type the number of failed attempts before you want the account to be locked out. Select OK. Double-click the ResetTime mins value. The default value is 0xb40 that is hexadecimal for 2, minutes two days. Modify this value to meet your network security requirements. Just now express. Enter the email address of your blocked account and enter the ….
Opens in new window. My LLCC. Enter your Email Address and click Next. Click on Forgot my password. Enter the characters in the picture in the box for verification and click Next. Use one of the following steps to retrieve the recovery code: Email: Open the recovery email address, select the email from "Microsoft account team", and note the code next to the "Security code" heading.
Text: Open your phone's Messages app, tap the text from Microsoft usually a six-digit phone number , and note the code in the text message. Sign in to access your Outlook, Hotmail or Live email account. The default value is 0. Reset Account Lock-out Counter After. This security setting determines the number of minutes that should elapse, after a failed logon attempt, for the failed logon counter to be set as 0. The value can be set between 1 and 99, minutes.
This setting needs the Account Lockout Threshold setting to be …. Just now onehowto. The next window will make you type your hotmail email address, or your " Microsoft account" as the system now calls it. Additionally, you must write the …. Just now microsoft. File Size: KB. Use these tools in conjunction with the Account Passwords and Policies white paper. Helps isolate and troubleshoot account lockouts and to change a user's password on a domain controller To retrieve your password or to reset your password, follow the on screen prompts.
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