> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Rindfuss > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:11 AM > To: Exim Users > Subject: Re: [exim] Hotmail > > David Sharpe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently (Mid-January 2008) Hotmail has developed some > intermittent > > delivery problem with email being > > sent through our server. > > > > * A new message to a hotmail address is discarded by > Hotmail and never > > shown to the user > > * A reply to a message - to a hotmail address - is > delivered reliably > > * All email from Hotmail to our server is delivered reliably > > > > Mail logs show mail is queued correctly on the Hotmail > servers in all > > cases - any suggestions as to why > > mail is suddenly being silently dropped? > > > > > > We had the same problem. I solved it by adding an SPF entry > to our DNS > server: > example.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 mx mx:mail.example.com -all" > (mail.example.com representing our outgoing and incoming > mail server). > Originally, following the recommendation made by the SPF wizard at > http://www.openspf.org/, we had "v=spf1 mx mx:mail.example.com ~all" > (note the tilde instead of the dash), but that was > apparently not good > enough for hotmail. See > http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax for an > explanation of the SPF syntax. >
What is really aggravating about that is that hotmail uses ~all in their own spf records |-{ Rick -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/