Re: Yahoo and Hotmail

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> On Tue, March 18, 2008 14:07, Jason Carson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>> When using Squirrelmail (or Roundcube) and I try to send a message to
>> Hotmail or Yahoo the message never arrives. However if I use Pine to
>> send
>> a message to Hotmail or Yahoo it does arrive. What's the reason for
>> this?
>> I don't want to have to use Pine every time I need to email
>> Hotmail/Yahoo.
>
>
> Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail in particular are notorious for junking mail from
> small, low-traffic servers. If I had to guess, I'd say the SquirrelMail
> headers put your message over the junk threshold when combined with other
> factors, such as: mismatching HELO or rDNS, short DNS TTL, dynamic IP,
> etc.

It must be the headers then, cause when I use Pine everything just works.


> Not that SquirrelMail is often used to send spam so much as spam often
> contains forged SquirrelMail headers. Although SquirrelMail may be a
> factor, it's most likely not the culprit. Check the forums for various
> independent mail server and webmail products and you'll find many threads
> about this...
>
>
>
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