Hi all,

Apologies for the duplicate post (a colleague of mine attempted to send it
but I think it's been held for moderation as he's a new user).

Wondering if anybody on the list is from Microsoft or can assist in raising
somebody at Microsoft to help with a strange delivery issue we are facing
sending email to Outlook users.

We are a web hosting company that has 10s of thousands of domains, spread
across a few hundred servers emailing out through an outgoing email
cluster. The cluster has multiple nodes and IPs.

The servers sitting behind the outgoing email cluster (the 800 servers or
so) all have hostnames ending in either domain1.com or domain2.com (not the
actual domains). When a customer sends emails however, they use their own
domain (user.com), so the only reference to the server is in the email
header, however SPF/DKIM etc are all based on the customers domain (user.com
).

We noticed after many complaints that all emails being sent from servers
ending in domain2.com are getting scored by Outlook as SCL:9, regardless of
email content, and has been for over a week now. We believe it's the server
hostname that is appearing in the headers, as we migrated a customer's
account (user.com) from a domain2.com server to a domain1.com server and
then sent the EXACT same email and it gets a SCL:1 score - it's also worth
noting that it used the identical outgoing email MTA and the same sending
IP from the mail that was being scored SCL:9.

We have reproduced this many times across multiple examples and can confirm
that all domains and emails being sent from a domain2.com server are
getting SCL:9, but the same email sent from the same sender email address
(but using filtering nodes that have the domain1.com domain) are not
getting flagged and getting scored SCL:1.

We are quite positive that these nodes are not sending spam, and have done
extensive investigations, SNDS is also showing no issues with our IPs.

Further, since the MTA connecting to Outlook is the same for both groups of
servers, we are relatively sure that it is not based on those IPs - but
something to do with the server hostname itself.

We have tried repeatedly to get in contact with Microsoft, but they come
back with ..... less than useful responses. This has happened to us in the
past many years ago, and the only fix was for Microsoft to remove the
punishment on the domain that was there for some reason.

If anybody can assist that would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Angelo Giuffrida
+61 421 221 585
Director, Nexigen Digital
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