Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Brooks
Hello, On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Carlos M. Perez wrote: > Hi, > > We're trying to resolve some delivery issues reported by hotmail users. > Started happening a few weeks ago. > === > Reporting-MTA: dns;snt0-omc3-s27.snt0.hotmail.com > Received-From-MTA: dns;SNT133-W53 > Arrival-Date: Mon

Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-24 Thread Tony Finch
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > "authentication required" is a bizzarre error to return. It's fairly normal error from an Exchange server when the client is trying to relay to a domain that the server doesn't host and when the server doesn't allow the client to relay. Sounds like an internal mis

Re: Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-24 Thread Michiel Klaver
As mentioned before, check the mail-logs at your webserver, you'll find this "authentication required" message logged there as response to the hotmail servers trying to relay mail to that webserver. At 23-10-2012 14:49, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > "authentication required" is a bizzarre error

Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
"authentication required" is a bizzarre error to return. Does it go away if you actually turn off graylisting for hotmail? On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, Carlos M. Perez wrote: > Mike, > > I think this is exactly what is going on. The domains that are having > issues have greylisting on with the

Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-23 Thread Carlos M. Perez
Suresh, The affected domains have never been on hotmail, etc. We've actually held this domain/hosting for the past 14+ years on this particular domain. Yes, there is an RFC violation, and it's apparently due to the greylisting feature from the spam filtering. Carlos M. Perez Runcentral, LLC On

Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-23 Thread Carlos M. Perez
Mike, I think this is exactly what is going on. The domains that are having issues have greylisting on with the spam filtering service and are hosted on a farm of hosting servers. We have blocked port 25 on the main hosting IP of the web server, and moved the built in mail server to listen on an

Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Falling back to A when there is an MX (especially after receiving any kind of SMTP response from the MX) is an RFC violation by the way (rfc 5321 section 5.1) Even then - this doesn't appear to be the case. The bounce below was generated entirely within Hotmail. From SNT133-WS53 (a hotmail webse

Re: hotmail.com live.com admin needed

2012-10-23 Thread Michiel Klaver
Carlos, check the mail logs of your web-server, your domain might have a primary A-record pointing to something different than MX-records. When the MX servers do something like greylisting and bounce with a temp-code (4xx) hotmail servers will try alternative records (like @ IN A) and might find a