hotmail blocking some domains?

Killer · 5 Nov 2004, 05:53 PM

My mails which I am using my own domain sending through my ISP smtp is always being rejected by hotmail. There is no reasons given except Delivery to the following recipients failed. The recipent email is there as I have just recieved her email. I am beginning to think hotmail is blacklisting my domain.

Killer · 5 Nov 2004, 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by fmnewbee
I ahve set my hotmauil to highest security so it delete all that is not in the whitelist.

You know this recipient well enough to trust she ahs n't by accident done like me?

I know my recipents doesn't block anyone including spammers. They are simple mail users. Sometimes my mail do get through but that is just sometimes.

5 Nov 2004, 11:27 PM

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Originally posted by Killer
I know my recipents doesn't block anyone including spammers. [...]

There is no such setting in Hotmail

You could telnet hotmail if you want to see the error code.

Killer · 6 Nov 2004, 07:59 AM

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Originally posted by Daniel S
There is no such setting in Hotmail

You could telnet hotmail if you want to see the error code.

There is such a setting in hotmail. The domain blocklist.

6 Nov 2004, 03:02 PM

Last I checked, there was no setting in Hotmail to completely disable spam filtering. The lowest setting (highest is addressbook only) still filters some messages.

Killer · 6 Nov 2004, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Daniel S
Last I checked, there was no setting in Hotmail to completely disable spam filtering. The lowest setting (highest is addressbook only) still filters some messages.

The block sender is still avaliable.

jlnt · 6 Nov 2004, 11:13 PM

The thing that probably happened. Is some larger companies like Hotmail, AOL, and Yahoo!. They buy a list of IP Addresses from ISP's in order to block them because of them being either residential accounts or even business.

Killer · 7 Nov 2004, 09:09 AM

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Originally posted by jlnt
The thing that probably happened. Is some larger companies like Hotmail, AOL, and Yahoo!. They buy a list of IP Addresses from ISP's in order to block them because of them being either residential accounts or even business.

So what is the problem being those accounts? We can't communicate with their users?

jlnt · 8 Nov 2004, 12:13 PM

Killer · 8 Nov 2004, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by jlnt
yes

Sound like hotmail is cutting access of the outside world from their users.

rob_au · 8 Nov 2004, 03:32 PM

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Originally posted by Killer
Sound like hotmail is cutting access of the outside world from their users.

No - Hotmail is simply implementing some fairly aggressive filtering (something which given the amount of unwanted mail which Hotmail account users attract is not at all unexpected).

(As I am oft to do, I would highlight this as an example of how email filtering fails as a solution to the problem of unwanted mail).

mf1941 · 8 Nov 2004, 09:55 PM

I'm forced to send e-mails to Hotmail addresses all the time as a
part of my business.

I've discovered that plain-text messages only get accepted as Inbox mail. Anything sent HTML format gets sent to junk using their default setting.

What is in the subject line etc doesn't seem to matter.

It doesn't matter which e-mail provider I use, except of course Hotmail.. which I refuse to!

5 Nov 2004, 05:53 PM	#1
Killer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Singapore Posts: 6,762 Representative of: Killer.kkk.sg	hotmail blocking some domains? My mails which I am using my own domain sending through my ISP smtp is always being rejected by hotmail. There is no reasons given except Delivery to the following recipients failed. The recipent email is there as I have just recieved her email. I am beginning to think hotmail is blacklisting my domain.

6 Nov 2004, 03:02 PM	#5
Daniel S Guest Posts: n/a	Last I checked, there was no setting in Hotmail to completely disable spam filtering. The lowest setting (highest is addressbook only) still filters some messages.

6 Nov 2004, 11:13 PM	#7
jlnt Essential Contributor Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 310 Representative of: JLMail.com	The thing that probably happened. Is some larger companies like Hotmail, AOL, and Yahoo!. They buy a list of IP Addresses from ISP's in order to block them because of them being either residential accounts or even business.

8 Nov 2004, 12:13 PM	#9
jlnt Essential Contributor Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 310 Representative of: JLMail.com	yes

8 Nov 2004, 09:55 PM	#12
mf1941 Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sound Beach, N.Y. Posts: 261	I'm forced to send e-mails to Hotmail addresses all the time as a part of my business. I've discovered that plain-text messages only get accepted as Inbox mail. Anything sent HTML format gets sent to junk using their default setting. What is in the subject line etc doesn't seem to matter. It doesn't matter which e-mail provider I use, except of course Hotmail.. which I refuse to!