SPF record for hotmail

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tebdilikiyafet

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Hi;

When I send an email, hotmail sends my mail to junk folder. Only hotmail do that. There is no problem on Gmail yahoo etc.. I researched and learned that spf and rdns are very important for hotmail. I didn't do anything about spf record for my domains. They are created by directadmin. I will explain with example;

my server ip: 11.111.111.11
my domain ip: 11.111.111.16

The spf record for my domain is:

"v=spf1 a mx ip4:11.111.111.11 ~all"

Is it true? Also is it enough for hotmail?
 
I would suggest you to check your rDNS first.. also, provide real server information (ip servername) would be much better to help you in your problems.

Regards
 
My rdns is mail.domain.com. It is also a problem. It is not same with Smtp banner. But there are lots of domain on my server. How each of them can be same with Smtp banner? My all domain's rdns should be equal to my smtp banner? My smtp banner is also equal to hostname. So it should be: smtp banner = my hostname = all rdns. Is it true?
 
Your smtp banner should just be your hostname of the server. It should also have proper A and PTR dns records setup.
 
Can you explain more clear please? My hostname is root.domain.com. and its ip is 11.111.111.11. I can see it on DNS management like a domain and there is an A record here. But there is no ptr for it. Should I add it?
 
You cant manage the rDNS from DirectAdmin, you need to ask to your server provider to set the RDNS of your IP to be as the hostname, so, root.domain.com

Regards
 
Ok they give me a web page to control them and I can control it. So all domain's rdns records will be my hostname right?

Your smtp banner should just be your hostname of the server. It should also have proper A and PTR dns records setup.
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What about this? I couldn't understand it?
 
okay my fault. Server ip rdns must be hostname. What about other ips? Other ips' rdns must be hostname? For example I have a second domain like xyz.com and it's ip is 11.111.111.19. What should be the rdns of this ip for proper mail sending? My main question is this.
 
Just Server IP is used to outgoing mails, so, no, is not mandatory, unless you changed exim configuration and you send from different IP every different site, in that case, all used ip for outgoing mail must have rDNS as hostname.

Regards
 
Okay I understood now. Smtp uses server ip and only server ip's rdns is important here. And I made it my hostname now.
If we come to my first question now what should be the ip4 in spf record? If I understand true it must be the server ip again.
So this is true right? "v=spf1 a mx ip4:11.111.111.11 ~all"
11.111.111.11 is the server ip.

I am asking this question for all other domains' spf records.
 
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My server ip's rdns was wrong. I corrected it. Spf is true.

Is there any other think to check avoiding hotmail junk mail problem or should I wait for a while?
 
mmmh wait 48hrs for dns propagation, than you should not have problem with that anymore.

Other things you can do, well, you should consider to use DKIM, search this forum for how-to.

Regards
 
I will wait and I will write here the result.
I will search for DKIM. Thank you so so much SeLLeRoNe for your all helps..
 
My emails still goes to junk folder in hotmail. I analyzed email source everything is okay. But problem still continues.
What can be the problem?
 
Also there are two domain on this email server. Hotmail sends emails to junk folder only one of this domains. The other one works correctly. Should I wait for someone to marked as secure this domain's emails?
 
Check your spf for both domains; check to make sure rDNS points the IP# to the hostname.

Jeff
 
I checked. Both of spf records are the same and like this:
"v=spf1 a mx ip4:11.111.111.11 ~all"
11.111.111.11 is server ip.

Also both of rDNS points to hostname. But problem still continues.
 
As I've posted previously in many threads, I can't help without real information because I can't test.

Perhaps others will help you.

Or if you don't want to make the information public for some reason, then perhaps you can find and ask the postmaster resonsible for hotmail, and ask them what's wrong with your settings.

Jeff
 
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