Mail not going to Hotmail?
Alright, so I created a test email at hotmail and sent me email from my script. Nothing. It's been about an hour and the mail (tried various times) has not gone through. Not in junk, nowhere!
I sent an email from my GMail account and that went through within the minute. Why/how did my mail just disappear?
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Smp Business Hosting posted this at 19:38 — 4th October 2007.
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Your best off asking your hosting provider with quesions about email problems.
Is your script sending email to domain email addresses such as [email protected] or to Gmail?
If it is then it's possible hotmail have blacklisted the server you're on, they love doing it!
Regards, Steve
Triexa.com posted this at 19:41 — 4th October 2007.
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My first thought was blacklisted, but I sent a message at the beginning of the week and my stats show referrers from inboxes of Hotmail users...
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Smp Business Hosting posted this at 20:10 — 4th October 2007.
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Greg K posted this at 20:05 — 4th October 2007.
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Two things to look at that may cause mail to get blocked even when the server itself is not blocked:
1. The FROM in the e-mail, what do you have it set as
2. Are you setting a X-Mailer: header? If you are using the default, hotmail may be blocking e-mails coming from an "automated source"
-Greg
Triexa.com posted this at 20:10 — 4th October 2007.
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I just find it odd that mail went through earlier this week and now it's fallen into a blackhole...
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Triexa.com posted this at 20:33 — 4th October 2007.
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My host helped me look through the logs which shows hotmail accepted all the mails (I think, lol)... is there someone I can contact at hotmail or a process or anything?
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247SiteAlert posted this at 17:02 — 13th October 2007.
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Hotmail is unreliable - their mail servers are so over loaded. I don't think you'll be able to contact anyone there for help, at least I've never been able to.
If you were using hotmail just to test with, I wouldn't waste any time trying to figure out why it didn't get there - send it again and see if it works a second time - it got to your gmail account so that validates that your your script works.
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