[vexim] Cannot send mail to hotmail?

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Andreas westvik <andreas.westvik at ktv.no>wrote:

>  Odhiambo Washington skrev:
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> 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?
> From who? Do you have public DNS/MX records?
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> Okay.
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First, you need to learn how to respond to posts on forums/mailing lists.
You need to weed out the unnecessary text, like the signatures.


> The server is a Debian Lenny directly attached to the internet via a cable
> modem, no special routers or anything. According to the ISP I'm on a DCHP
> service, but the ip has been the same for the last 3-4 years now.
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How is your Exim configured to deliver outbound mail? Directly? Via a smart
host with your ISP?
If you are on DHCP, you must use some smart host otherwise
hormail|yahoo|many others will refuse your emails.


> And the server is actually a backup server for the main hosting server,
> wich is down, and has been the latest 3-4 months now.
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Down or retired? :-)


> That in it self is another story. This is a backup server. But it works as
> a primary right now. It has several domains pointed to the IP from
> everydns.net (witch is a great free service btw).  So yes, I have several
> public DNS/MX/A records.  Not sure if you need more general info?
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What do you mean by several DNS/MX/A records? I'd think you have several
domains with same MX/A records pointing to this server, no? But the fact
that you have a dynamic IP still bothers me. Is your cable provider also
your DNS managers?
Do you have PTR records for your IP?


-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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