Receiving a verification box when sending email

[JAR]

I use Outlook 2007 for my emails. Tonight I started receiving a dialog box
asking me "to type the characters in the image to send email messages from
(e-mail address removed)." (Where xxxx is my email address) "This verification prevents
autmated programs from sending spam."

What is going on?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

This happens when you send more than the allowed number of messages on a day
or in a larger time frame. They simply check if there is indeed a human
sending all these emails and not some sort of mailing script.

Fill out the characters and you should be fine again.

 

[JAR]

This is happening everytime I send an email. I haven't sent any today and
when I went to send one just now it asked for the verification.

 

[VanguardLH]

This is happening everytime I send an email. I haven't sent any today and
when I went to send one just now it asked for the verification.

So just when are you going to enter the code to verify you are a human using
that Hotmail account? You thought it would just go away?

 

[Bob I]

Contact your e-mail provider for the complete explanation.