Cannot send to Hotmail account

I am going insane here!
I would like to send email to a client who uses hotmail (and cannot change to Gmail or anything else for business reasons). Every mail I send gets bounced back. Looking on Google it seems this is an issue for qite a few people but I can't find a work-around or solution. Please can someone help?
Thanks For Reading
Jason
...I'm using Mail 3.1 on Leopard if that helps....

Greetings,
I don't really have an answer for you, but I send email all the time to several Hotmail accounts. I use Mail 3.2, but it worked for all the other versions, too.
I haven't done anything special or unusual to mail's setup - I just use the defaults.
Good luck - Cheers,
M.

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