-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Oxley wrote: > I am unable to send email to hotmail. I thought I had a misconfiguration > in sendmail, but I have just tried a telnet (See below). Although I can > send emails to hotmail without an error or undeliverable report, none > show up in my hotmail account unless I reply to an email I sent from my > hotmail. Does anyone have any ideas? > > Cheers, > Dave. > > Here's the telnet session with my email addresses modified for the > archives ;) > > ~ # telnet mx4.hotmail.com 25 > Trying 65.54.245.104... > Connected to mx4.hotmail.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 bay0-mc9-f16.bay0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk > e-mail to Microsoft's computer network is prohibited. Other restrictions > are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations will result > in use of equipment located in California and other states. Thu, 3 May > 2007 06:06:06 -0700 > helo daveoxley.co.uk > 250 bay0-mc9-f16.bay0.hotmail.com (3.3.2.16) Hello [203.171.86.83] > mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK > rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > data > 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF> > Subject: Test message > Test 23:06 03/05 > . > 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Queued > mail for delivery > ^] > telnet> quit > Connection closed.
I had no SPF record for my domain name. Hotmail obviously rejects emails without this nowdays. http://www.openspf.org/ Cheers, Dave. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGOhwwx43ifHzpDVURAqmoAKCBX8c+dPgV4leV5e5NR6Nu6q8kMgCdH7yw h50QxkQunju+49M7gQ3Fvsk= =Iao3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
