Hi there, I'm trying to register and I'm getting this error:
Email from hotmail/live/outlook can't be used - please try again
Get an email from some other source then the ones above.
I use yahoo
Thats weird, I would like to know whats the reason not to allow hotmail/outllok email address for registration.
I'd suggest gmail is the easiest to get a free email account.
The problem is that all those 3 (hotmail/outlook/live) are owned and run my microsoft.
microsoft uses low quality blacklists to block spam.
There are email blacklists that ban subnets of the internet
They ban a subnet that contains a spam source, rather than just the server sending out spam
i.e. "you were in the vicinity of the perpetrator so we shot you also"
Once a subnet is put on these blacklists, only the company further up the chain that manages the subnet can request removal, not anyone who has a server within the subnet
Basically this targets small server providers
I will, however, say that yahoo is worse
They have no way to request removal from a blacklist ever.
They are the only one I know of like that.
I've been running email servers for 20 years or more, and dealing with these sort of problems has been getting worse
My current solution is to use AWS since they appear to manage the issue themselves also
(they have an option to specifically request that you are using an instance for email)