some OIM's and IM's end up on my Hotmail Inbox

Hi y'all

Since I am a geek, I'd like to have some inputs as to why the following
happens and under what circumstances. It's like this. I often do the the
offline convo with a contact, you know, just to select who i am talking to
and not give chance to others and let 'em kow that i am online. Anyway, it
has happened several ocasions that my lines would not get to my buddy but
they would somehow land on my hotmail inbox. The same thing happened to my
buddy once while interacting with me.

Just to give you some more details. This would happen when my online buddy
happens to disconect all the sudden right on the moment i am dropping him/her
lines on the convo. Now, what i don't undertand is why those "lost" lines are
sent as e-mail and not appear on my buddy's WLM as OIM's at sign-in.

Finally, when i've received the "wlm-hotmail" messages as e-mail, in the
'From' field it shows my buddy's WLM screen name as opposed to his/her name
as it was configured on my hotmail's contacts list. Do you guys understand
what i mean?

Anyway, so... if you guys have any clue let me know. Don't leave this data
network geek dwell in his e-ignorance.

Cheers!

Greetings,

The Messenger service is actually using the Hotmail storage area to maintain your offline
messages. As such, if it can't deliver one of the messages, it will show up there.

Since it's just being used essentially as a storage area, it doesn't do any lookups through
the Hotmail contacts or anything similar hence why you just see the display name.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Cisco Kid" <> wrote in message
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> Hi y'all
>
> Since I am a geek, I'd like to have some inputs as to why the following
> happens and under what circumstances. It's like this. I often do the the
> offline convo with a contact, you know, just to select who i am talking to
> and not give chance to others and let 'em kow that i am online. Anyway, it
> has happened several ocasions that my lines would not get to my buddy but
> they would somehow land on my hotmail inbox. The same thing happened to my
> buddy once while interacting with me.
>
> Just to give you some more details. This would happen when my online buddy
> happens to disconect all the sudden right on the moment i am dropping him/her
> lines on the convo. Now, what i don't undertand is why those "lost" lines are
> sent as e-mail and not appear on my buddy's WLM as OIM's at sign-in.
>
> Finally, when i've received the "wlm-hotmail" messages as e-mail, in the
> 'From' field it shows my buddy's WLM screen name as opposed to his/her name
> as it was configured on my hotmail's contacts list. Do you guys understand
> what i mean?
>
> Anyway, so... if you guys have any clue let me know. Don't leave this data
> network geek dwell in his e-ignorance.
>
> Cheers!

Thanks for such a quick response. It did clear out my questions. However,
knowing why and how it happens, I would like -if possible- to know if these
"wlm-hotmail" messages occurr when both of us have WLM or it does not really
matter.

More especifically, if I am using WLM and my lines get "lost" and were sent
to my buddy's hotmail, did it happen b/c my buddy was using WLM? could it
have happened if my buddy was using an earlier version of messenger, say 7.5?

That's all for now, and again thanks for keeping this geek updated!! =)

Regards

Hi,

WLM is the only client that lets you send offline messages so it will always have that
header, regardless of the client receiving although in fairness the only other client which
supports offline message is MSN Messenger 7.5.

The "loss" of messages can happen regardless in either client, however if someone is using a
version of Messenger besides 7.5 or WLM, the messages will simply expire and never arrive (go
figure).

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--


"Cisco Kid" <> wrote in message
news:204A8B4D-EB86-4347-97CE-...
> Thanks for such a quick response. It did clear out my questions. However,
> knowing why and how it happens, I would like -if possible- to know if these
> "wlm-hotmail" messages occurr when both of us have WLM or it does not really
> matter.
>
> More especifically, if I am using WLM and my lines get "lost" and were sent
> to my buddy's hotmail, did it happen b/c my buddy was using WLM? could it
> have happened if my buddy was using an earlier version of messenger, say 7.5?
>
> That's all for now, and again thanks for keeping this geek updated!! =)
>
> Regards