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Cannot send email via smtp.live.com

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Archived post from March 7, 2016. Product: Hotmail – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Mar 7, 2016

When attempting to send email via smtp.live.com on port 587, the server simply disconnects after I send the ClientHello:

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-->220 BLU436-SMTP92.smtp.hotmail.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version  8.0.9200.16384 ready at  Sun, 6 Mar 2016 22 00 11 -0800
<--HELO sender.example.com   
-->250 BLU436-SMTP92.smtp.hotmail.com Hello [154.5.112.xxx]
<--STARTTLS
-->220 2.0.0 SMTP server ready
<--16 03 03 00 49
01 00 00 45 03 03 56 DB 73 00 17 FD 7C ED 60 1F
BB 99 84 EB 53 8E 3E 1A EC 69 23 A0 D1 90 7C 92
4D 25 09 C6 78 0F 00 00 06 00 2F 00 3C 00 3D 01
00 00 16 00 00 00 12 00 10 00 00 0D 73 6D 74 70
2E 6C 69 76 65 2E 63 6F 6D
OK Bytes sent: 78
OK Finished SENDING
FD_CLOSE 988
REMOTE: sckClosing
STATE: sckClosing
STATE: sckClosed
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This same code works just fine on Gmail, and worked with Live the last time I tested it in December. What has changed?

J.A. Coutts

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