HotMail will silently block some mails. By silently, I mean that it doesn't bounce them back. The admins, apparently, have their heads up their asses. There's a form you can fill out to keep your server from being blackholed but good luck with that. It didn't help me much. I can't remember the URL but google "hotmail block spf" and you'll probably come across a link to it (along with scads of angry posts by people who--surprise, surprise--hate Microsoft).
Actually, I just remembered that MS can't bring themselves to use SPF; they use their own version, called SenderID. It's all very confusing and I've been trying hard to forget the entire, ugly mess. In the end, I put up a notice saying that we didn't accept HotMail addresses. Luckily, that works for us, but it's not something everyone can afford to do, unfortunately. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, number9<[email protected]> wrote: > > I am in the process of deploying an application in cakephp and I have > made use of the E-mail component. > > It works great if I am sending E-mail to gmail addresses, but hotmail > addresses do not receive anything at all. With debug set to 2 I am > seeing no error messages, so I'm assuming the problem is receiving. > > I have tried smtp and the "non smtp" way with the same results. > > I understand that they may be getting blocked as spam E-mails and it > can take a while to become trusted (even G-mail has put the E-mails in > spam), but nevertheless it is important that users receive E-mails to > register. > > I am currently testing the site on shared hosting (which probably > doesn't help matters), but is there anything I can do to ensure E- > mails are received by any E-mail address? > > Would I better just using php mail function? I have never had problems > with E-mails not being sent/received when using 3rd party scripts > (e.g. wordpress). I would rather use the cake component if at all > possible as I have it working now. > > Would appreciate any suggestions as I am sure I'm not the only person > this has happened too! > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
