[vexim] Cannot send mail to hotmail?

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Andreas westvik <andreas.westvik at ktv.no>wrote:

>
> This is probably not suited for vexim list, not sure. But I will try
> anyways.
> I was going through the inbox for a postmaster at somedomain.com earlier
> today I a noticed a lot of "failed" warnings. All of the came from mail
> that was sent to users at hotmail.
>
> And this is what I got:
>
> "A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> user at hotmail.com  retry timeout exceeded"
>
> "X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running
> on the system "server.net", has identified this incoming email as
> possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can
> view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have
> any questions, see the administrator of that system for details."
>
> So I thought had to do with clamav/spamd. But I turned that service off
> and then I got this:
>
> "This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>  A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> user at hotmail.com
> retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
>  ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
> Return-path: <postmaster at server.net> Received: from [x5.2x1.xxx.243]
> (port=57145 helo=server1.net) by server.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1
> (Linux grus 2.6.8-1-386) id 1L789F-00042e-Qp for <user at hotmail.com>;
> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:45:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008
> 13:44:27 +0100"
>
> So it still bounces for hotmail. Other external hosts works just fine.
> This problems stays on in both roundcube and local clients. And its only
> hotmail. Is this a exim4 rule problem?
>
> -Andreas
>

You know what? Tell us about your whole setup before we can help you.
Start from the LAN, the server, to the Internet. Do you have a static IP?