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.

Actually that doesn't explain why it works for Res (that other person) on
this list a few messages ago...

>> 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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