Clicking hotmail link doesn't bring up inbox
Hi,
It seems that Hotmail have just changed their redirection scripts because when I click the hotmail link, I am redirected firstly to:
https://account.live.com/default.aspx?rru=inbox
... and this then redirects to:
https://account.live.com/summarypage.aspx
It sucks because there's no link in there to my inbox. My best option is to go to mail.live.com, but who can be bothered typing into their address bar? ;)
The notifier still works, it's just if I want to open my inbox that it fails.
Thanks,
bassmanjase.
lethedoom
Fri, 10/31/2014 - 11:09
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yes and no
This happened to me exactly the same way today when using my Chromebook at school, but when I returned home to my Windows desktop pc I found normal operation of x-notifier using Chrome, Opera and Firefox browsers to open my Hotmail inbox. I assumed Microsoft was being cranky with my choice to use the Chrome OS, but I will check it out again Monday when I return to campus where I rely on the Chromebook.
RpD
Fri, 10/31/2014 - 16:01
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Faulty "message"
Sometimes corporate systems trying to pass a message results in a faulty implementation.
If I remember right, something like this happened to me, and it took me a while, but either I dug around, or finally noticed a small sentence saying something required my attention. Perhaps a billing notice.
So... just saying... look at the page you're redirected to, and the details/settings of your account to see if anything requires attention... billing, etc. Or it may be some odd server update not quite right... which may eventually clear itself.
Not sure X-Notifier could fix it, if it's only one or a few users... until it rolls out to more/all.
If it's not happening to Tobwithu, the developer... he'd have to see an account that had the problem.
RpD
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 15:22
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P.S.
Also if I remember right... I had to do a manual login to see the prompt helped figure out the problem.
Open a new tab manually (not with X-Notifier), then go to hotmail.com or outlook.com and see if you get a normal login procedure (log into your account).
lethedoom
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 14:25
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no problem for me today
Logged onto campus wifi with my Chromebook this morning and instead of redirection my hotmail inbox opened when I clicked the hotmail link.
CFBancroft
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 15:53
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Microsoft legal notice policy update
one of my hotmail...
not checking...
So I do manually open Hotmail...
and I got legal notice policy update and accept agreement.
After that X-notifier start working again.
That what RpD talk about, see above.
RpD
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 21:43
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Thanks
Yes, it was something like that, which I couldn't remember.
Thanks for letting us all know... probably fix a lot of logins... (if they look into it, manually).