Hello,

I have a problem with the second step connection. I have can't get the email verification code on my hotmail account.

Someone have a solution for this ?

Thank you

Now that you mention it, noticed that I didn't get any e-mail about the last two games I got. They were gifts, wondered whether it had something to do with that, and I do receive the notifications about wishlisted games going on sale (not subscribed to anything else), but wonder if there are some issues. Not going to sign out and try of course, since I might not be able to sign back on...

Alerady chek it five time... I did't receive any. I'm really trying thought My bugging email is an hotmail. I know they had problem with it in the past... The corrected it but it seems its not working anymore...

Is it possible you had a typo in your email address?

Anyway, aside from creating a new account with a different email, best bet is to contact GOG Support: https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?product=galaxy&form=account

Nothing like that in the adress.

I already done that ( i'm writing with that second account ). But they want information to be sure i am me. ( that normal ) by answering something that need to be connected to my first account... And it's kind of a problem...

*nods* Same as mine, why I made the connection.

I thought they got rid of hotmail.

I'm with you with this. Maybe they should just stop the two step verification with all the hotmail with a little warming "change you email adress, it buggy and old". It's not like you still can create hotmail adress nowadays Well, not everyone thought it would be a problem :/

Who are "they"? At least I have one hotmail account in active use.

Having said that, email (servers) seem to be such black magic nowadays. I had to setup some postfix mail server or relay or whatever with starttls or something to a customer, and when I tested whether mail worked, a google account received the test email ok, while an outlook.com account (server) just kept rejecting the emails.

Who the heck knows what MS wants, SPF DKIM blaa blaa blaa... I pity the fools who have to administer some mail servers and trying to keep up with all the new requirements both Google and MS keeps coming with, whether their users will receive the emails anymore.

MS.

I bounce emails off google, and yes it's a total challenge. After a few days or so, if you don't send another email, it'll automatically disable "insecure apps," which google defined as anything that is not google. It's absolutely wonderful, let me tell you. I largely only use email only for incomming, anymore, as a result. I ended up setting up message boards for long form communication. The thing is, none of this actually stops spam, either, so it's not about that.

Yeah I've had to fight with that with Google as well, when my trusted Samsung email app stopped showing and sending email. Turned out Google had just decided it is "insecure", but luckily I was able to enable it again in gmail options because Google's own phone email app is crap, much harder to use.

As for MS, in one of my PC's Thunderbird email client I can't read certain live.com account's emails anymore because MS warned they think something "suspicious" is happening with that client so as a security measure it can do shit anymore, on that particular (Windows 10) machine. I logged into that account with a web browser but it wasn't fully apparent what the heck MS wanted me to do to make it trust that PC/client once again.

At the same time, Thunderbird can access that same live.com account just fine on a few other devices, which happen to be both Linux Mint and Raspberry Pi Linux devices. Funny that MS decided to cut communication to the client which is running on their own OS...

Whatever, who the heck knows what is their logic. Sometimes I feel both Google and MS do these kind of "security hardenings" in order to:

1. Try to get people to use their official clients for email.

2. Try to make it increasingly harder for non-MS and non-Google email servers from working, by constantly bouncing emails to Google/MS email users from any other servers for minor security "violations".

And they keep moving the goalposts constantly too just so that people not using their services and clients directly would have as hard time as possible.

Yep, all this being the case, i get the impression this could be part of the issue with OP as well.

Let's not forget that they also can't run a DNS server, either.

Though, i think this is the overall industry moving this way. I get people who flip out if a site doesn't have SSL even if you can't put in user input. I could go on for hours about how Google is making things worse for everyone in ways they don't even know, yet. There seems to be this weird trend of making a decent product then stripping it of all that makes it good after everyone has adopted it. Youtube has followed this strategy, and now Android is following suit (more or less turning into iOS with all it's restrictions). Before our very eyes, we are watching technology moving backwards.

Why should people be forced to change their e-mail address? Sure, MS bought it many years ago and incorporated it into their service, but the addresses remain. And it's not like GOG e-mails in general get blocked, since I'm getting those about discounts, like I said.

Because it's unreliable.

As for the addresses, i recently checked upon finding out that some remained and none of mine did.