Emails to my live.com account are bouncing! One or two gets through per day, but 99 percent do not. My Outlook calendar notifications hit my inbox. I just sent a windows Phone email and it got through. But just about all others bounce. This happened suddenly. Phone, PC, laptop, iPad, doesn't matter which inbox I'm using--the emails don't make it to my inbox. Help! This is my business email. It's been happening for a week, ever since I got an error message on my PC (Outlook 2010). It said there was an error in my email account file (it wasn't a .pst, but maybe .ast?) and it said it needed to repair it. I clicked "repair" or "Okay" and was notified that the repair was successful. But that's when people started telling me their emails were bouncing and my inbox got VERY quiet... My PC has been off for five days while I'm traveling, but the problem persists. People are telling me my emails are bouncing.

 

New info: I forgot that a couple of days ago I received an email from Oulook.com telling me that my email account's size was "expanding too rapidly." I should delete messages or store large files on SkyDrive." I do not store large attachments on my email account; I pay for 100GB of  SkyDrive so I have no need to do that. I did delete a bunch of unneeded marketing email newsletters, but it hasn't helped. Also, the Outlook.com email said they had increased the size of my account. So if I, and they, have taken these measures, why are people sending me email still getting bounces?

 

Here's technical info from a just-bounced message:

 

Reporting-MTA: dns;SNT0-MC3-F9.Snt0.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;blu0-omc3-s4.blu0.hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:09:13 -0700

Final-Recipient: rfc822;Alan.j at live dot com
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.2
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;552 5.2.2 This message is larger than the current system limit or the recipient's mailbox is full. Create a shorter message body or remove attachments and try sending it again.

Note: this was a 1kb message and there were NO attachments. It was a test message someone sent so that I could obtain the error code. (On the "Final-Recipient" line above, I altered my email address by replacing @ and . to prevent bots from grabbing it.) 

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