I received an email titled "VERIFY THIS EMAIL ADDRESS TO AVOID IMMEDIATE CLOSURE!!" from the address *** Email address is removed for privacy ***.  It was filtered into my junk mail by microsoft smartscreen.  I did not follow the link as I am not sure this is a valid mail.  It says my account will be permanently closed within 24 hrs if I do not verify it.  Can you please tell me if this e-mail is valid and if I should follow the instructions?

I use personal Hotmail and my incoming mail has not worked for over a day.  I have checked my junk file, rules, blocked senders, etc...and see nothing else wrong.  This occurs regardless of computer, browser, network (business or home).  As an example, when I sent an email from my Champlain college email addess I get the following error (NOTE:  I get the same error when an I send an email to my hotmail account from gmail)->

Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:

*** Email address is removed for privacy ***
The recipient's e-mail address was not found in the recipient's e-mail system. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please check the e-mail address and try resending this message, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.

 Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: alumni.iu.edu

*** Email address is removed for privacy ***
#< #5.1.1 smtp;550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.RecipNotFound; not found> #SMTP#

Original message headers:

Received: from mail102-va3-R.bigfish.com (216.32.180.111) by
 CH1PRD0710HT003.namprd07.prod.outlook.com (10.255.152.38) with Microsoft SMTP
 Server (TLS) id 14.16.164.2; Fri, 18 May 2012 12:25:33 +0000
Received: from mail102-va3 (localhost [127.0.0.1])           by
 mail102-va3-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79AE8E0528    for
 <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>; Fri, 18 May 2012 12:25:24 +0000 (UTC)
X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:216.93.144.65;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPV:NLI;H:nickel.champlain.edu;RD:nickel.champlain.edu;EFVD:NLI
X-SpamScore: 0
X-BigFish: ps0(zzc85fhzz1202hzz8275bh8275dhz2fh2a8h668h839hd25h)
Received-SPF: pass (mail102-va3: domain of champlain.edu designates 216.93.144.65 as permitted sender) client-ip=216.93.144.65; envelope-from=prvs=24857a89d1=*** Email address is removed for privacy ***; helo=nickel.champlain.edu ;hamplain.edu ;
Received: from mail102-va3 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail102-va3
 (MessageSwitch) id 1337343921939980_20810; Fri, 18 May 2012 12:25:21 +0000
 (UTC)
Received: from VA3EHSMHS036.bigfish.com (unknown [10.7.14.241])        by
 mail102-va3.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B9B20045       for
 <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>; Fri, 18 May 2012 12:25:21 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from nickel.champlain.edu (216.93.144.65) by
 VA3EHSMHS036.bigfish.com (10.7.99.46) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id
 14.1.225.23; Fri, 18 May 2012 12:25:21 +0000
Received: from Neon.champlain.edu (neon.champlain.edu [216.93.150.213])          by
 nickel.champlain.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4ICPTvj012830
            (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for
 <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>; Fri, 18 May 2012 08:25:29 -0400
Received: from mailbox.champlain.edu ([fe80::912d:b80d:2f52:82e7]) by
 Neon.champlain.edu ([fe80::c24:c080:541d:c158%10]) with mapi; Fri, 18 May
 2012 08:25:29 -0400
From: "Porter, Mark" <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>
To: "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***" <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:25:20 -0400
Subject: test
Thread-Topic: test
Thread-Index: Ac008Uo0OC9y3d0JTSm3c7fbYOffTQ==
Message-ID: <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
x-antivirus: avast!
x-antivirus-status: Clean
acceptlanguage: en-US
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
            boundary="_000_6E6944FEB634AC48B241A53AE989A402013B6D33F2F5MAILBOXcham_"
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.6.7580,1.0.260,0.0.0000
 definitions=2012-05-18_05:2012-05-18,2012-05-18,1970-01-01 signatures=0
X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0
 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 bulkscore=1 adultscore=0 classifier=spam
 adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1203120001
 definitions=main-1205180085
Return-Path: prvs=24857a89d1=*** Email address is removed for privacy ***

 

17. May 2012 · Comments Off on My hotmail account is blocked · Categories: Hotmail · Tags: , , , ,
When I Try  to access my hotmail account I keep getting an account blocked message because some one is using it to send spam. Then I get sent to a page informing me that I need a conformation number to apply in a box so I will be able to access my account. The email account they send the number to is a old one and I can not get access to it.  My hotmail account name is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. All efforts to sign in to any site for help sends me back to my account blocked page and the cycle continues.  I had to create a new hotmail account just so I could post this question Its name is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. Any help will truly be appreciated.  Thanks Mike
17. May 2012 · Comments Off on this email for microsoft? or not · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , , , , , , ,
i recived email from
*** Email address is removed for privacy *** 
so this email for microsoft or not?
this email arabic

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 في علبة الوارد الخاصة بك

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06. May 2012 · Comments Off on Chat history: Changing log saving options? · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , , , , , ,
Hi,
I've been having some problems with the chat history.
Normally, the files would be named according to the e-mail (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***), but on my new laptop they're being saved with a big number instead of @hotmail.com (examplexxxxxxxxxxxxx). Now this doesn't bother me, but some e-mails ending with .number (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***) are being saved as example.96xxxxxxxxx. So Windows mistakes the .96xxxxxxxxxx as the file type, and hence I'm not able to open the logs (that are supposed to be XML files).
Any idea how to fix this? 
I can't find a way to specify that the file type is XML, or a way to make Messenger save them as @hotmail.com.