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Old 03-13-2009   #1 (permalink)


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Invalid Instant Messaging Address

I'm trying to add a Hotmail contact as a Windows Live Contact and I get a comment back that the email address is invalid for Instant Messaging. Is there a list of valid email domains somewhere? I know that Hotmail and Live are okay.

thks...

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Old 03-13-2009   #2 (permalink)
Jonathan Kay [MVP]


 
 

Re: Invalid Instant Messaging Address

Greetings,

I'm a bit confused, is what you're adding a @hotmail account, or are you simply trying to add
them in Hotmail?

Also the exact message you're seeing would be helpful to. Although there are some domains
and IDs that aren't allowed by the service, but they wouldn't be Live IDs anyway.

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> I'm trying to add a Hotmail contact as a Windows Live Contact and I get
> a comment back that the email address is invalid for Instant Messaging.
> Is there a list of valid email domains somewhere? I know that Hotmail
> and Live are okay.
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> thks...
>
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Old 03-14-2009   #3 (permalink)


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Re: Invalid Instant Messaging Address

Hi, I have an existing contact in Hotmail. the email address is xxxx.wanadoo.fr. In Windows Live I edit contacts to add them and enter the email address I have as the Instant Messaging Address. It then says:
"The contact could not be sent to the server because the instant messaging address is invalid" .... so here I'm stuck.
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