Here we go round and round in circles again.
In the meantime Im trying to sort something for my own mail and being flooded with not delivered PM notifications, topic notifications and new subscription failures.
I've manually activated new accounts... and Im about to unsubscribe notifications for a few MS mail accounts (sorry guys, but my mail box is bad enough without bounce messages for PMs and subscribed topic failures).
I thought I had found the perfect solution - it seems to be a common issue so there is a mod to stop people being able to sign up with hotmail & outlook email addresses. Just tried to install the mod, but its failed at the same point one of the other mods I have installed failed at a few months ago.
I didn't say anything at the time but I had to delay installing an update which affects core registration files.. but for the sake of security I installed the update.... but we were a layer of protection down against spammers. It took several weeks to sort that, but everything is now back in place as far as anti-spam goes (You guys wont have noticed any difference thanks to mods being on alert and I think we managed to catch most of them by other means).
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr... just grrrrrr.
Thanks John for the offer, that is very kind of you... but atm too fed up to contemplate anything further right now and start relaying mail.
/rant
@ Weaver, this isnt a hosting problem as such.. its Microsoft mail and it can affect anyone.
After my last report I was contacted by other site holders asking how to deal with this issue. It is also big enough and stupid enough to affect those using TalkTalk email services.