Although I am still in the development phase for my site, I have setup Microsoft Live email in my _AppStart.
I really like the Outlook.com interface and as it allows me to have multiple email accounts I thought it was going to be a perfect solution for the very limited email traffice of my website.
So, far it is an utter disaster.
It appears that on a whim Microsoft decides that the emails I am sending are an indication of a spam operation, and stops email traffic.
What happens is that when new users try to register, the confirmation email is causing an unhandled exception.
When I log into that email account I get the whole spiel of the account being disabled because of suspected spam
Then it forces me to verify the email address again, with the use of a mobile device.
Then it forces me to change the password.
I may have sent twenty emails or so, in the last few months, testing the functionality of the site.
Now, I only figured out something was wrong because I was doing some testing and making changes to the registration page. Without that I would have never found out.
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Yes.
But now Google Apps is not free for new sign-ups. So no email using Google Apps.
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Yes Thats good. @wavemaster try using gmail i.e smtp.gmail.com with port number 567 or 25.
Try both i don't know for me sometimes email weren't getting sent using 567 so try 25 too.
I use port 25 with my Google Apps custom domain email.
@afzal he wont be able to use custom domain email he will have to use his own email id example@gmail.com
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Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Nov 03, 2012 02:45 PM|LINK
Although I am still in the development phase for my site, I have setup Microsoft Live email in my _AppStart.
I really like the Outlook.com interface and as it allows me to have multiple email accounts I thought it was going to be a perfect solution for the very limited email traffice of my website.
So, far it is an utter disaster.
It appears that on a whim Microsoft decides that the emails I am sending are an indication of a spam operation, and stops email traffic.
What happens is that when new users try to register, the confirmation email is causing an unhandled exception.
When I log into that email account I get the whole spiel of the account being disabled because of suspected spam
Then it forces me to verify the email address again, with the use of a mobile device.
Then it forces me to change the password.
I may have sent twenty emails or so, in the last few months, testing the functionality of the site.
Now, I only figured out something was wrong because I was doing some testing and making changes to the registration page. Without that I would have never found out.
What a mess!
Afzaal.Ahmad...
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 21, 2012 02:54 PM|LINK
I use gmail.
It has many features.
Like I can also have multiple accounts being logged in!
Secondly I dont see any errors occuring while sending email to user while registration.
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 23, 2012 08:58 AM|LINK
@wavemaster
You can do Custom Domain Email with https://domains.live.com/Signup/SignupDomain.aspx
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 23, 2012 02:18 PM|LINK
I know, I am already using that. But it is for the MX records only.
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 23, 2012 05:35 PM|LINK
Google also lets you use your domain.
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 23, 2012 05:47 PM|LINK
Yes.
But now Google Apps is not free for new sign-ups. So no email using Google Apps.
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 23, 2012 05:49 PM|LINK
Yes, but a simple user can use their server to send emails.
I use theirs server to send emails. I am not an Apps user but still I can use it.
Google Apps is better just to have alot of space.
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 23, 2012 06:06 PM|LINK
Yes Thats good. @wavemaster try using gmail i.e smtp.gmail.com with port number 567 or 25.
Try both i don't know for me sometimes email weren't getting sent using 567 so try 25 too.
I use port 25 with my Google Apps custom domain email.
@afzal he wont be able to use custom domain email he will have to use his own email id example@gmail.com
With Regards
Abhishek Rajiv Luv
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http://pluralsight.com/training/users/abhishekluv
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Re: Bad experience using Microsoft Live to handle email for my WebMatrix site
Dec 24, 2012 08:39 AM|LINK
And also mentioned that I use my own account.
I dont have any Google Apps account. So I just use my own email address and its password. Thats just all.
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