Re: [exim] Cannot send mails to @hotmail.com addresses

Mike Cardwell wrote:
>
> To further expand on this. It appears that this technique does not
> "bypass" their filters, but gives the message a much higher likelyhood
> of passing them only. I noticed this when trying to send an email with a
> .exe attachment to a hotmail account, which was silently dropped. So I
> did a bunch of further tests to verify that this was the case. So what I
> did was updated the router to add fake In-Reply-To and References
> headers to any email destined for a hotmail account to trick hotmail
> into thinking that the email was a reply. When I did this, all email
> seems to be getting through. When I remove this, it starts getting
> blackholed again:

That's excellent, Mike. I just installed this router in my exim, and my
test message to hotmail got through. It ended up in Hotmail's junk bin,
but at least that's trainable.

I'm going to add a pointer to this thread to my hotmail page.

- Marc