> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Peter Rindfuss
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:11 AM
> To: Exim Users
> Subject: Re: [exim] Hotmail
>
> David Sharpe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently (Mid-January 2008) Hotmail has developed some
> intermittent
> > delivery problem with email being
> > sent through our server.
> >
> > * A new message to a hotmail address is discarded by
> Hotmail and never
> > shown to the user
> > * A reply to a message - to a hotmail address - is
> delivered reliably
> > * All email from Hotmail to our server is delivered reliably
> >
> > Mail logs show mail is queued correctly on the Hotmail
> servers in all
> > cases - any suggestions as to why
> > mail is suddenly being silently dropped?
> >
> >
>
> We had the same problem. I solved it by adding an SPF entry
> to our DNS
> server:
> example.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 mx mx:mail.example.com -all"
> (mail.example.com representing our outgoing and incoming
> mail server).
> Originally, following the recommendation made by the SPF wizard at
> http://www.openspf.org/, we had "v=spf1 mx mx:mail.example.com ~all"
> (note the tilde instead of the dash), but that was
> apparently not good
> enough for hotmail. See
> http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax for an
> explanation of the SPF syntax.
>
What is really aggravating about that is that hotmail uses ~all in their own
spf records |-{
Rick
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