* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (01/05/07 15:21): > As a slight aside (and not strictly exim!), > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/hotmail_friendly_fire/ > > This has been affecting a number of domains I deal with, and was a > source of much bewilderment, as I couldn't track down any issues with > the MTAs at my end. > >> (apart from source port 53, which is let thru at the present time) > > Here we've noticed that we were unable to fetch hotmail's MX records > with BIND set to query on source port 53, resulting in a large backlog > of mail for hotmail and associated domains. The reason for us using > source port 53 is, sadly, long lost in the mists of time, so hopefully > nothing is broken. > > It seems that most of these changes to hotmail have happened in the last > 8/9 days.
My personal problem (inability to receive from hotmail, but sending apparently fine) was fixed by lowering the MTU on the mail server's ethernet adapter to 1400 from 1500. So I guess it was related to my network changes rather than to hotmail. Chris -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
