httpwebwitch - 2:25 pm on Jan 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Customers may see a delay

what I'm experiencing isn't a delay, it's an outright ban. It's now been about 4 weeks since the alerts stopped arriving and I haven't seen one since. I can query the database and see records of events that should have triggered them (for example, I should have received 24 of them yesterday)

Besides, these alerts are very time-sensitive. They arrive when something needs to be done immediately -- that's the whole point of setting up email alerts. If they arrive 3 hours late, they're already useless to me.

My forensic investigation shows that around the time the fuse blew I was sending myself on average 210 per day, more or less. So if there's a frequency threshold, it's probably near 200.

Live mail has a very aggressive spam filter, and I like that. I get almost NO spam in my hotmail, and it's an address I use a lot for online correspondence. However I think it's presumptuous of Microsoft to filter mail from addresses I've explicitly whitelisted.