DirectAdmin + Hotmail + SPF Records

[Manie]

Hi All,

I have troubles with hotmail receiving none of my webmail generated e-mails.
Exim logs say they got send, but never arrive in hotmail. (Not even in junk.)

After consulting Hotmail Postmaster he gave me a long list of possible solutions:

The main issue is that hotmail uses a so called: "Smart Screen filter"
One of the most important parts of this filter is rating the e-mail usging the SPF/Sender ID records in the nameserver.

Additional information: http://www.microsoft.com/senderid

Is there anyone who succesfully added this feature?
Or can people, without having spf/sender id set on their dns/server, tell me what they might have done that could get the mail inside the hotmail inbox?

I am very interested to any solution!

Kind regards,
Armand

 

[nobaloney]

By default DirectAdmin publishes an spf record; to see it:

$ dig example.com txt

where example.com is replaced by your domain name (without the www).

If you're not using DA to publish DNS you'll have to add it with your DNS provider.

More information here.

Jeff

 

[Manie]

okay, your totally right about the dns server, thank you for the link, ill look into it!

Regards,
Armand

 

[totaltouch]

Which program do you use to send e-mail?

 

[Manie]

Uses squirelmail with exim (DirectAdmin enviroment)

 

[totaltouch]

I experience exactly the same problems:

- Reverse DNS is setup correct.
- SPF records in place.

Mail sent from Outlook of Thunderbird via server, ends up at hotmail.
Mail sent from Squirrelmail direct on server, ends up nowhere.

If I sent an email from hotmail to an account which I can access with Squirrelmail, and reply to that message, they get received by hotmail.

Just composing a brand new message goed wrong. Something wrong in Squirrelmail headers obviously?

 

[nobaloney]

I'm closing this thread with a link to this one:

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21190

where the discussion continues.

Jeff