Hi there: We avoid this kind of problem, because we set up VLE users with their College email account and prevent them from changing this setting, so, apart perhaps from a very few guest users or similar, there aren't any hotmail accounts or the like to be delivered to. No doubt some users would prefer to have their external email as the setting, but probably fewer than the number of defunct or misspelled accounts that we would get if we opened it up. I don't hear many complaints, and this way we try to promote use of the College email system (which users can access externally anyway), and we can see what is delivered, and we know all users have a valid account.... Tony -----Original Message----- From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather Peake Sent: 25 May 2007 09:55 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [VLES] emailing from VLEs issues Hi anyone suffering from issues when trying to do mass mails from within a VLE. For example Forums that send postings via email to everyone registered to that forum. All the 'big' mails that we do to hotmail accounts seem to be bouncing back and not getting to recipients at all. When we tried with a small forum, two people two messages, they got through. I know AOL has some sort of anti spam affair where you have to tell them that your messages are legit does hotmail have a similar thing going on? Is anybody else having issues with hotmail accounts or is this one all our very own? Thanks Heather ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle