[pmwiki-users] PHP/Linux/Hotmail: broken membership / mail() configuration

[J. Meijer]

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> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:52:38 -0400
> From: nospam at eton.ca
> To: commentgg at hotmail.com
> CC: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] PHP/Linux/Hotmail: broken membership / mail() configuration
> 
> On 2007-04-18 J. Meijer is rumoured to have said:
> > The system is configured to send mail. And the sending part works. It's just that gmail accepts them and hotmail does *not*. It throws 'm away, probably because of eagerly classifying it as spam. Note that it doesn't even appear as junkmail. 
> 
> Are you 100 percent sure that hotmail is just trashing the mail? (I 
> wouldn't surprise me, but I need to ask.)

Three people independently confirmed that emails to accounts other then hotmail work, but Hotmail doesn't accept *nor* rejects them. 


> Can you look at your SMTP server's logs to see what error (if any) 
> hotmail is reporting on the rejects?

That's the fun part: *no* rejects! 



> Barring positive answers to the above questions, can you send me a 
> direct email from the same engine so that I can look at the headers it 
> generates? Not promising any solution, but I have an inordinate interest 
> in mailing lists and MX behaviour.  ;-)

Yeah! That's good to hear. 

Sending one now to your 'nospam' address (OK?). Sent it to my commentgg address as well. 

 
> -- 
> Neil Herber
> Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/

Thanks Neil.

/jm


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