Message from staff about bad linked personal EMail address.....

Hello,

Received a notice from the staff (?) about the inability to contact me using my personal Hotmail account. (The initial notice did not appear as a "moosage", but rather as a screen that occured prior to my being able to access the Forum which then directed me to a Moosage with further information.)   I do recall some time back Paul W. mentioning a desire to see movement away from Hotmail accounts although I can't recall why.   I've double-checked and the address on file is correct.  Additionally, I don't see any contact attempt recently that were sent to my 'Junk' mail folder in Hotmail/Outlook.  I do not see a 'SPAM' folder separate from the 'Junk' folder so don't know where else attempted contact messages may have gone.  Ultimately, the message posted to me within Permies.com indicated that my account may be suspended if a correct email is not provided. Please advise at this point as I do not wish for that to happen.  Thanks!

Hotmail (and most email providers)  censor mail. This is several steps before a junk filter and most users never see it.  If they don't like something about the incoming  mail, they stop it before you ever see it.  Sometimes they send a message back to the sender, like in this case, claiming the email is defunct.

Hotmail and a few others had some trouble with this over the last few days.

Fun fact, about a year or two ago, google/gmail finally admitted this, burried in their terms of service, but market it as a feature to protect users from emails that might harm them or hurt googles reputation.

proton mail is the only email provider I've found that doesn't censor mail and trusts the user is smart enough to tell spam from real mail.

This is why I self-host my email, even though it's a pain at times.

I use my yahoo account for the routing off all potential junk mail...

I use my proton account  for only friends and those I trust...     It is my bat phone as I check it often...    Yahoo not so much.

Thanks for these responses.  I will try to see if I have an email account available with our ISP and will try to use that if possible.  Otherwise will seek out another email address solution.  Thanks!