On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 05:18:53PM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > On Mar 4, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Maurizio Caloro <mauri...@caloro.ch> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > If i send any mail go @hotmail this will never arrive, but 
> > Postfix Log are here in other thing.
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> 
> Hotmail took responsibility for delivery of the message.  If it 
> never showed up in the user's mailbox, perhaps Hotmail considers 
> your IP address sufficiently "spammy" to discard your mail.
> 
> Create a Hotmail account for yourself, and send the mail there, see 
> if it arrives.  There's not much Postfix can do to get Hotmail to 
> not discard your mail.

On the idea from someone in IRC, and working in conjuction with a 
colleague who was a Hotmail user, I confirmed that Hotmail was 
discarding my mail if it had only one Received: header.  Sounds 
crazy, and really, it is.  Adding a forged Received: header, just as 
many spammers do, landed me in his Inbox.

Go figure.  This was a whole decade ago, so no telling what might 
have changed in the meantime.

Oh, and I was also able to reply to his originated mail.  Their 
content filter looked for In-Reply-To: and/or References: also.

> Some people advocate publishing SPF records and using DKIM 
> signatures.  Though my mail gets delivered without either,
> perhaps these would help your mail not get junked.

I think it's still mostly about IP reputation, which changes very 
slowly, especially at big receivers like Microsoft.
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