Hotmail account

[joodyanne]

Quick question re hotmail.com account (now outlook)
Every email I get from the above account which is operated from Firefox, I get the following message.
"This member failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear to be"

Good that it does that, but EVERY email, people I hear from every day?    How do I tone it down a little!!!

Judy

[Geek-9pm]

Some users have given up on this an went over to other providers, like Yahoo and Google. Still, MS has made some remarks about this problem.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/be-careful-this-sender-failed-our-fraud-detection/c1712db2-00ab-4e61-8ede-d20aa6486f45

We are already aware of this issue and we have already forward this to our Product team. In the meantime, we advice you to mark any emails as Phishing scams if you are not sure about it. You can also review email headers if in doubt for messages that seem suspicious.

That was three years ago. 

[joodyanne]

I can't believe this started to happen in 2012 and still has not been resolved.

I dont like gmail, I don't know why they made hotmail and outlook account, it was working quite ok before.

[Geek-9pm]

I have a number of email accounts. Can't say that any is the best.  But one thing I try to do is use a local POP3 client to read my mail. Unfortunately, trying to send out email from a local client is a bother. Some kind of thing about SMTP and SSL protocol.

For what it is worth, a list of email services.
Top 20 Best Free Email Websites
You might like GMX or even ZOO.

And you can always buy a web site and use the plain web-mail things. I have two web sites with my own private email servers. Nothing fancy.   

[BC_Programmer]

"This sender failed our fraud detection checks" is when the SPF record intended to validate that there is no E-mail spoofing fails. Basically the SPF record says "If you don't believe me, go ahead and Ask blah.com"; the "Fraud detection" message appears if, when Outlook reaches out to blah.com, it says "I've never heard of that user". So Outlook shows a warning, as that is a common tactic used to spoof E-mails by scammers.

It might not show the message if you add the recipients in question to the "Safe Senders" List in Settings (Gear icon in the upper right->Settings)

[joodyanne]

Geek, I have set up one private account on Microsoft Outlook.com.    I have tried getting gmail and hotmail on there, but run into trouble every time, so have had to resort to the browser, which I hate.     

Will have another look at the options.   I did try thunderbird and did not like it.

BC_Programmer - when I clicked on the gear icon upper right - I did not have Settings?

Geek how much do the web sites cost?

[BC_Programmer]

BC_Programmer - when I clicked on the gear icon upper right - I did not have Settings?

It is actually called "Options".

[Geek-9pm]

Geek how much do the web sites cost?

About a $1 per month. And you have to get a domain name.
I would sell space to you cheap, but the forum frowns on doing business on the forum.
Here are recommendations from Life hacker.
http://lifehacker.com/5683682/five-best-domain-name-registrars
1&1 is good. So is GoDaddy.

[joodyanne]

Thanks will look into all the options.