I totally agree... the server SHOULD bounce or deliver the message... For some reason hotmail, but also yahoo and others do not always do this. I am not sure if this has *anything* to do with XMail, it may be just a small difference in the SMTP protocol that triggers some spam filter on the remote server?
Many of my e-mails to yahoo and aol users haven't made it to their mailboxes. But when I sent the e-mail again, it arrived just fine most of the time. Is it possible that the first message is just delayed for more than a few days? I have also noticed that, since I started to use TLS on my mailserver, more messages are accepted and delivered, but still not all of them... Ivo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francesco Vertova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 4:41 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: hotmail delivery problems > At 12.47 21/03/08, David Lord wrote: >>On 21 Mar 2008, at 1:56, max toro q wrote: > >> > I installed Xmail on win2k, and I have delivery problems to hotmail. >> > Some messages get delivered, some simply get lost. The log shows no >> > sign of problem. >> >>Yes but not very often. Mails are accepted but never delivered. > > Not sure we're talking about the same thing, anyway from time to time > my users complain that mails for hotmail accounts "are not > delivered", meaning that the receiver did not receive them and the > sender was not notified of any error. Every time I have investigated > I found that hotmail did accept the message for delivery: smail logs > say that. For me, this means that XMail did its job and the problem > (if any: you know, 90% of a computer's problems lie between the > keyboard and the chair ...) is with hotmail: if a MTA accepts a > message for delivery, it must either deliver or bounce. > > Ciao, Francesco > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
