Re: [exim] hotmail emails not reaching contacts

I believe the Hotmail/Yahoo issue (if you watch your firewall logs) is
due to them using an old method called IDENT. This has been done away
with on most intelligent setups these days, but of course Hotmail and
Yahoo are still using it.

Anyway, when your MTA connects to Hotmail/Yahoo, they respond with an
IDENT request on tcp/113.. of course most of us drop connections on any
port we don't use, so if they don't get a response, they drop your
message thinking you are someone bad. The recommended solution is to
configure your firewall to send a RST (or -j REJECT for iptables;)) on
incoming tcp/113. This should allow mail to go through, although Hotmail
(and Yahoo?) might put your mail in the recipient's junk folder until
they authorize you.

Anyone have any better solutions to this? When I contacted Hotmail
support they suggested I register as a 'Bonded' server. The $1000 (or
so) a year is just not worth it to me to keep my mail out of someone's
junk folder the first time I send them a message.



On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 09:18 -0800, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> Anne Clarke wrote:
> > I am having problems with hotmail emails that are not going through to
> > my contacts that I have used for a long time I get the message of
> > delivery status notification either delayed or failure could any one
> > help me thank Anne Clarke
>
> Hi Anne, sometimes I have problems with email getting to hotmail, maybe
> every 3 or 4 months. Not sure why though..
>
> can you send me the out put of
>
> exigrep $MESSAGE_ID /var/log/exim/mainlog (or where ever your exim is
> logging)