Blocked by Hotmail? Use a Microsoft mail client instead.
After being told that “SmartScreen technology” had blocked his server from sending mail to Hotmail, this guy found that if he used Outlook 2003, rather than Thunderbird, he could get his mail delivered. Not that you should be surprised by that. It’s not like Microsoft client headers appear in a whole lot more spam than Mozilla headers. Oh wait a second, Microsoft headers do appear in at least half of all spam.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/15/spam_nothotmail/page2.html
“I started playing around with clients rather than concentrating on server setup, and I’ve had some interesting results. I can send to Hotmail without a problem using Outlook 2003, but no cigar with Mozilla Thunderbird. I think that this suggests that the headers the email clients add to an email also play a crucial role in determining if the mail gets through or not. This is BAD news because as a system admin there is generally very little you can do about this.”
2 comments June 20th, 2007
