how do I get rid of Human Interaction Proof (HIP) challenge

[Barry D]

Part of my paid for Office 2007 Suite, Outlook 2007, recently started this
HIP junk-Please tell me how to stop it!! It does it all the time and is
driving me freaking NUTS!! Besides being annoying as heck, I am vision
impaired and it is killing me! I am willing to switch to MAC if that is what
it takes!!! HELP!!

 

[Ben M.Schorr]

Sounds like spam to me - it's nothing I've ever heard of Microsoft doing. Is
this an e-mail message you're getting?

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps you are having a problem with your ISP? Outlook doesn't perform
"HIP-junk", so you are yelling in the wrong direction.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Part of my paid for Office 2007 Suite, Outlook 2007, recently started this
HIP junk-Please tell me how to stop it!! It does it all the time and is
driving me freaking NUTS!! Besides being annoying as heck, I am vision
impaired and it is killing me! I am willing to switch to MAC if that is what
it takes!!! HELP!!

Outlook doesn't do this. Your mial service provider does and you decided to
keep who that is a secret so we can't suggest ways to address the problem.
You don't even say what type of mail account you use.

It won't change just because you use a Mac.

 

[VanguardLH]

Part of my paid for Office 2007 Suite, Outlook 2007,

And what does "paid" have to do with anything? You certainly are NOT paying
for the freebie Hotmail account that you are using *IF* that happens to be
your e-mail provider (which you never bothered to identify).

The rest of my response assumes that you installed the Outlook Connector
add-in to add HTTP/Deltasync support to give you IMAP-like access to a free
Hotmail account.

recently started this HIP junk-Please tell me how to stop it!!

Nope, Outlook didn't start doing that. You installed the Outlook Connector
add-on to access your Hotmail account. It is the Hotmail *service* that
wants proof that a human is using that Hotmail account. So do what it
says: go prove you're a human instead of a spambot using that account.

If you cannot enter the CAPTCHA characters using the add-on then use the
webmail interface to your Hotmail account, login, and enter the
characters shown in the CAPTCHA image to prove you're a human using that
account.

It does it all the time and is driving me freaking NUTS!! Besides being
annoying as heck, I am vision impaired and it is killing me!

Well, until you decide to authenticate yourself as a human using that
account, it's going to keep prompting you. Of course, you could use your
ISP's e-mail account or some other e-mail provider and hope that they don't
inject a security prompt during login to prove a human is using that
account.

Personally I've found the Outlook Connector to not be reliable enough for
me to bother using it. You could switch to POP access to Hotmail (if that
is the UNIDENTIFIED e-mail provider that you use and assuming you are using
the Outlook Connector add-on to provide HTTP/Deltasync access to Hotmail).
However, I've learned over years of use that Hotmail isn't a reliable
e-mail service itself for business use but it's okay for personal messages
(but it is still not my primary account because of too many outages).

I am willing to switch to MAC if that is what it takes!!! HELP!!

Ooh, like we Usenet users here care about such vapid childish threats.

What is Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups
http://www.masonicinfo.com/newsgroups.htm
http://www.mcfedries.com/Ramblings/usenet-primer.asp

When using a webnews-for-dummies interface (e.g., Microsoft's Communities,
Google Groups, or a leech site using a forum-to-Usenet proxy), those are
gateways to Usenet. Despite the pretense of a forum, you are participating
in a newsgroup (aka Usenet).