Mail always goes to spam folder

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Feel free to post your experiences with your hosting company in our Web Hosting forum. That's harsh. I would definitely find another host if it was my money.
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To wrap this thread up, I was able to get my email scripts working with a new host. Hooray! Thanks Chris!
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Good to hear :)
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Wait.....damn hotmail. I can send mail to yahoo, gmail, my other servers, no prob. But, Hotmail junks it. I've read on A LOT of forums that hotmail is the worst. Do you have any tips on how to successfully send to a hotmail account?

It'll get 1 email through (to the inbox), then the rest of the emails go to junk folder.

I can use SMTP, NativeMail, PHP mail, anything.
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Again; SPF record. What is it? :)
postmaster@domain.tld address should be set up.
Reverse DNS mapping should be configured.
Reverse DNS mapping should resolve to an IP address again.
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The SPF record is setup correctly. I checked with them first to make sure it was right.

From what I'm seeing in hotmail, you can send email to a hotmail account just once, and then again after the first message is read (and waiting at least 120 seconds). If you send 2 emails to a hotmail account before the first one is read, microsuck junks it! Just an observation, maybe that'll help someone else someday, i see a lot of people with the same hotmail woes.
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