my Mailserver...

just_grass · 3 Jun 2007 at 14:55

... sends my e-mails...

they are recieved... but when sent to my hotmail,

they are sent to the junk e-mail folder!

am using hMailServer - domain: alexmarsden.co.uk

any ideas folks? - i'm completely stumped.

Alex.

riddlermarc · 3 Jun 2007 at 15:17

Are you running your mail server from home, served by an ISP's address (especially NTL/Virgin)? The range of IP's these ISP's have are usually listed as spam and you won't really be able to get around it (you can't de-list an ISP IP from the spam lists). I had this trouble with my mail server I was running from home and have since moved it to standard hosting

just_grass · 3 Jun 2007 at 15:27

yes its on home adsl... by f2s - which i believe is now pipex....

does that still apply then?

Alex

Trifid · 3 Jun 2007 at 16:20

Are you sending through an authenticated mail box? I.e. through your ISP or domain provider?

just_grass · 3 Jun 2007 at 16:30

the mailbox is on the mailserver at home.

the mailbox and mailserver operate an account on my own personal domain.

it does not have anything to do with my isp(f2s)... except using the net. connection. and nothing to do with my domain provider (1and1).

Deathwish · 3 Jun 2007 at 20:47

Well it does have one thing to do with F2S, and that is your IP address. Any email sent from your mail server will have the originating IP as your IP.

Hotmail is very picky about which IP's it allows through, and i'd guess it doesn't like the fact that the email its received has come from a domestic ADSL account (it can check this via a quick WHOIS)

I'd guess if you setup hMail to send via your ISP's SMTP server then it would not get put into Junk.

tolien · 3 Jun 2007 at 21:58

At last count, Hotmail checked SPF records for your domain - do you have any set up?

Toytown · 3 Jun 2007 at 22:06

Hosting email services from home isnt a great idea IMO, the email servers i operate all have dynamic ip blacklists (which for instance would block all emails comming from F2S customers, unless it originated from F2S's mailservers).

They also block based of the hostnames of the sending IP, so for instance if your RDNS (something your ISP configures) has the word ADSL or DSL or other such words in them, then it would also be blocked.

The achieve the highest % of chance that your mail will be delivered, then you will probably have to move to a hosting provider or colocate.

just_grass · 4 Jun 2007 at 00:07

okie it might be deathwish and riddlemarc have explained then

- will try using f2s smtp to send mail.. see what happens.

f2s allow you to set up rdns for your own ip.. which i have.

set it to the same dns name that points to the IP - so the ip resolves to the dns name and visa-versa....

will see what changing to use the smtp - outmail of f2s does....

thanks all