I can't send mail to Hotmail

[virgil66ro]

Please help,

I checked to see if i can log at hotmail with telnet, and I can.
I use slackware 9.1 with sendmail with default instalation.

The server works, well for many mail server, but not for hotmail.

Can anyone help me please?

Thank's

[sarumont]

What exactly is the problem here? sendmail will send your mail, reguardless of where it's being sent to. Are you trying to retreive your mail from hotmail and check it via kmail or evolution or some such program? If so, check this out: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/vie...740&highlight=

[Dolda2000]

sendmail should be logging some error, at least. I don't know what sendmail's log file is called in slackware, though, but if you have /var/log/maillog, see what you can find out from it.

[virgil66ro]

Hi,

For testing, i just send a message to a msn address.
this are the lines from /var/log/maillog:

Feb 1 18:22:39 1oopis sendmail[4329]: dangerous permissions=40777 on queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/
Feb 1 18:22:39 1oopis sendmail[4329]: i11GMdKE004329: from=<root@1oopis.oopis.ro>, size=245, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.58.0402011822190.4328@1oopis.oop is.ro>, proto=ESMTP, relay=root@localhost
Feb 1 18:22:39 1oopis sm-mta[4332]: i11GMdnr004332: from=<root@1oopis.oopis.ro>, size=419, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.58.0402011822190.4328@1oopis.oop is.ro>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Feb 1 18:22:39 1oopis sendmail[4331]: i11GMdKE004329: to=<virgil66ro@msn.com>, ctladdr=<root@1oopis.oopis.ro> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30245, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (i11GMdnr004332 Message accepted for delivery)
Feb 1 18:22:42 1oopis sm-mta[4334]: i11GMdnr004332: to=<virgil66ro@msn.com>, ctladdr=<root@1oopis.oopis.ro> (0/0), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=30419, relay=mx1.hotmail.com. [64.4.50.99], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ( <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402011822190.4328@1oopis.oopis.r o> Queued mail for delivery)
Feb 1 18:27:37 1oopis sendmail[4392]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1



thank's

[virgil66ro]

Problems:

If I do not have 777 permissions at /var/spool/clientmqueue/, I get an error, witch says that I do not have write permissions.

It allways tell me that the IP of my machine is 192.168.0.1 - witch is a privat IP (not the server IP) .

[Dolda2000]

I don't know for sure, but it does seem to be something with hotmail. Look at this line:

Feb 1 18:22:42 1oopis sm-mta[4334]: i11GMdnr004332: to=<virgil66ro@msn.com>, ctladdr=<root@1oopis.oopis.ro> (0/0), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=30419, relay=mx1.hotmail.com. [64.4.50.99], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ( <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402011822190.4328@1oopis.oopis.r o> Queued mail for delivery)

The hotmail server says that it accepted the message. Thus, your server has done nothing wrong. It has correctly delivered the message to hotmail, and hotmail says that it has accepted it. Therefore, no matter how I look at it, it does indeed seem as if hotmail is doing something wrong. Maybe hotmail filters it away as Spam?

[virgil66ro]

Hi,

So, what is your sugestion?

[Anonymous]

My suggestion dont use microsoft, ie Hotmail.

If however you feel the need to use microsoft then by almeans do that but know this you can integrate all your email into one by using Eudora.

[virgil66ro]

Oh, I do not use Hotmail.
But, I have some programs, that require an authentification response from new user address. I that address is any@hotmail.com or any@msn.com, the user can't log in.

Any sugestion?

Thank's

[Dolda2000]

Well, the thing is that it does not seem that you can do anything about it, since your system seems to be working fine. Try contacting the hotmail admins and query them about it:
msnhst@microsoft.com