Hi Paul, Have you successfully emailed these people before? I know you said the addresses are correct, but are you sure the people are still using their hotmail accounts? I heard somewhere that new hotmail accounts were no longer available, but if that affects existing account holders ... I just don't know. Tim -----Original Message----- From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Dromey Sent: 15 January 2009 14:45 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Hotmail Query Hi all. I've recently begun sending emails to multiple recipients, something I never had to do much before. When I sent an email to about 20 recipients, 6 of which were hotmail.com addresses, I was notified that one hotmail message was relayed, and one delayed. No account of the other 4. When I re-sent the delayed email, it once again came back as delayed but with the following annoying message at the end. 421 RP-001 The mail server IP connecting to Windows Live Hotmail server has exceeded the rate limit allowed. Reason for rate limitation is related to IP/domain reputation problems. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com <http://postmaster.live.com/> for email delivery information and support Also, I now know that the other 4 hotmail address emails from my initial effort were never delivered. Any ideas as to what's going on? To anticipate the question, the addresses I've used are correct. Thanks in anticipation Paul _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> We are a community of 5.8 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 708 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message