Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Email to Hotmail not working
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 17:07:09
Message-Id: 200705031758.05190.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Email to Hotmail not working by Dave Oxley
1 On 03 May 2007, Dave Oxley wrote:
2 > I am unable to send email to hotmail. I thought I had a misconfiguration
3 > in sendmail, but I have just tried a telnet (See below). Although I can
4 > send emails to hotmail without an error or undeliverable report, none
5 > show up in my hotmail account unless I reply to an email I sent from my
6 > hotmail. Does anyone have any ideas?
7
8 Look, Dave, almost all people on this list and virtually anywhere in planet
9 Internet have dumped sendmail years ago and moved to some modern MTA like
10 exim or postfix or some such. It is highly unlikely you get a spot-on answer
11 here. Maybe, there are still sendmail mailing lists around. You better try
12 there.
13
14 That said, it could be that hotmail doesn't like your Envelop-To: header.
15 Sendmail can, without a doubt, re-write this header, but I have forgotten how
16 to do it about ten years ago. ;-)
17
18 Uwe
19
20 --
21 The Informal Linux Group Namibia:
22 http://www.linux.org.na
23 SysEx (Pty) Ltd.:
24 http://www.SysEx.com.na
25 --
26 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list