Sending email from comp to phones

A friend gave me his phone mail like xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-@ezweb.ne.jp

I used xxxxxxxx@live.com.sg (hotmail) to mail him. I received a mail back from him a week later, but the content has totally no link with the mail I sent. I replied back this mail, but its been more than a week and I haven't been getting replies.

So I was wondering if my mail didn't go through him? Like he can mail me but I can't mail him or something. But I didn't get any failure messages.

Help is greatly appreciated.

Basically, Japanese cell phones come preset to refuse computer based email as a means of preventing spam. Your friend will have to adjust the security settings on his account to receive your mails. Do you have a number to call them at or a computer email address to reach them at?

to yllwsmrf:

Ah I see. Unfortunately this is the only way to communicate with him so I'm afraid not.


Does anyone know if it makes a different between using hotmail (live.com) and gmail?

Again I'm no expert but the spam setting on my phone are on and I often send mails to myself, private students etc via the internet without problems at all. So either, 1. yes it might possibly be spam settings, but 2. it might be possible they they just don't want to answer.3. Just too busy to bother to read?

to: Express Train

Yes I've considered those before since I'm not close with him, but I just wanna double confirm. Thanks for letting me know regarding the spam setting!

Express train,

What carrier are you on? When I was on au my spam settings were automatically on. My friends docomo account also has it automatically on. But I just switched to softbank and it isn't on by default.

Mel,

Using a different free internet service will likely have no effect. Paid services may have a better chance of getting through depending on what their security settings are.