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Hotmail suddenly not letting emails through

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:14 pm
by legitimatemailer
I've been using a simple fsockopen sequence to do my smtp mailing sessions...but recently switched to phpmailer, and now to Swift mailer.

I have my own smtp server, and have been sending emails from it without issue. I usually send my test emails during development to my hotmail account. Again, with no issues.

Recently, about 3 days ago, I found that my emails sent to my hotmail account or any other hotmail account I would setup, weren't getting delivered....they weren't showing up in the junk folder either, and no bounce-backs.

Now, I also have outlook running on my Win box, also setup to go through the same smtp server. (BTW, the actual smtp server is a separate server of mine that is not the server that my www/php stuff sits...so it was logging in to the smtp server to send out)...

When I send a simple email from outlook through my same smtp server, to the hotmail account from the win machine, it goes right through just fine. and gets delivered....
BUT... when I tried to do a simple mail send either doing just a simple by-hand telnet session, or now using one of the Swift mailer tests, it doesn't get to my hotmail account....
I put a sniffer on it (on the win side), and looked at outlook's headers. They are sending some x- headers in there, but I couldn't see anything that stood out as an issue that I didn't have in my own transmission from swift.

Now, what's interesting, is I just registered on this forum, and listed my hotmail account to signup. I never got the activation email!
But, I tried my yahoo acccount, and setup another account here, and that activation went right through.
Anyone else have this problem as of now??

If you can get an email through to a hotmail account (and I know it can be done, since I can send it from outlook through my own smtp server), please send me a snippet to do so...I think they have very recently changed their requirements for email to get through.

Please....help....while I still have hair!

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:43 pm
by s.dot
Have you been blacklisted?

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:50 pm
by John Cartwright
scottayy wrote:Have you been blacklisted?
To answer this > http://www.isipp.com/blacklists.php

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:55 pm
by legitimatemailer
Nope....
I am able to send an email through my smtp server to my hotmail account(s) using outlook.
I just downloaded Opera to try email from there (doesn't work either to my hotmail accounts)..still waiting on the download of thunderbird.

So I know I'm not blacklisted, as I can send from outlook.

scottayy wrote:Have you been blacklisted?

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:20 pm
by legitimatemailer
Can someone verify that they can send emails to hotmail using swift mailer? Just a simple email...text only.

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:50 pm
by Chris Corbyn
legitimatemailer wrote:Nope....
I am able to send an email through my smtp server to my hotmail account(s) using outlook.
I just downloaded Opera to try email from there (doesn't work either to my hotmail accounts)..still waiting on the download of thunderbird.

So I know I'm not blacklisted, as I can send from outlook.

scottayy wrote:Have you been blacklisted?
Using outlook or thunderbird will tell you nothing because more than likely you're not using outlook on the web server. This is almost certainly a DNS issue. Please read: http://www.swiftmailer.org/wikidocs/v3/tips/spam

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Also, can people *please* stop private messaging me about Swift instead of posting here? I'm the only person who can respond to a PM, anyone can respond here.
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