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FliptheCoin

Hey Everyone,

Here's my dilemma.

I've been trying and trying to send email from Canada to Korea. Basically I've tried from both my hotmail and yahoo accounts to send an email to several hanmail accounts. Its not working. Really getting frustrated. The message I get it something like "you've sent too many emails to us" and to contact a "[email protected]" address. This too doesn't work.

I can't figure it out for the life of me. The only thing I can think of is to download hangul characters onto the computer, but I'm having trouble doing this too (haven't goten the CD yet).

Does anyone have any advice? Anything is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Howard Roark · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Canada

It doesn't have anything to do with your location (I don't think so anyway). It's to do with your email being something other than hanmail. My boyfriend and I both use hotmail and we've both had this problem as well. And we live in Korea.
That being said, I don't actually know how to solve the problem. Only, if there is a phone number listed on the job ad, perhaps you could just make a quick call to them and tell them the problem. They may call you back or give you an alternative non-hanmail address to contact. A 5 minute phone call won't cost much.

Kwangjuchicken · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:29 am Post subject:

I only have yahoo accounts 15 actually Wink

. have been in korea 5 years Shocked

and have sent tons of emails to hanmail and received tons from hanmail no problem. But I have had problems sending to hotmail with yahoo.

blah · Joined: 08 May 2003 Location: Ulsan, Korea

I have never had problems sending messages from Yahoo to Hanmail either. I have a feeling there is some kind of anti-spam software (nonspam@...) that is filtering you out. It's not uncommon for things to not run smoothly in Korea. Sorry I can't help.

lush72 · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: I am Penalty Kick!

I have Yahoo, Hotmail, and Lycos e-mail addresses and the only one that never has a problem sending to Hanmail is Lycos. Works EVERY TIME!

This could explain the fact that www.lycos.co.kr is actually redirected to www.nate.com

NightWing · Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Location: location location

My two cents.
I have problems sending mail from Yahoo! to certain Hanmail accounts but not others.
To complicate it more, the ones I have problems with used to work and then suddenly..........they didn't.
mysterious Shocked

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

The evil penguin

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Some korean email companies filter out hotmail and Yahoo addresses, because so much spam comes from them. They do it for a while, then it's OK, then they do it again. Darned annoying.

Use a different email account (not Yahoo or hotmail) to send the mails. It's your only choice.

Welcome to Korea.

Industrial Strength · Joined: 02 Dec 2003

I had the same problem, Hotmail to Hanmail. I tried the Lycos route, and it seems to have worked.

Only one new problem. Within 2 hours of signing up for a totally new account with Lycos, I had received 25 spam emails... Shocked

...and counting. Evil or Very Mad

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Sometimes i wonder if Hanmail and other Korean accounts do this just to keep koreans from using hotmail and getting used to using their services.

Currently, everyone uses Buddy Buddy here, as one example, but MSN Messenger is slowly gaining popularity.

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

Hi...I also tried sending to hanmail from yahoo and hotmail with no luck. I signed up for Lycos and it worked.

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

It now seems to be working. I got mail in my Daum mail box from a Canadian friend yesterday, and seems to be working today too. Try it again, Daum made a whole new layout and page design, spam blocking option, and other cool stuff, which if I could read Korean better, I would know about. Try it again.