yahoo n hotmail not accepting mail from one domain
Nikkilä Tommi
tommi.nikkila at wmdata.fi
Fri Jun 1 13:50:17 UTC 2007
The Yahoo and Hotmail mail servers are so diffferent from the rest of the world's that one can but wonder where to search for the right answer. But, if you are convinced that your DNS records are as they should I would approach Yahoo and Hotmail about the issue. Maybe they are blocking (from whatever reason) emails from your domain..?
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Tommi Nikkilä
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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of sylvan dacounha
Sent: 1. kesäkuuta 2007 0:03
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: yahoo n hotmail not accepting mail from one domain
Thanks for your quick reply . do appreciate
btw the domain from which i can send emails to yahoo or hotmail does have an SPF record but has reverse DNS thats is kmun.gov.kw
but i did add an SPF record
but the domain from which hotmail and yahoo refuse to accept email has an spf record as well as an reverse DNS entry
appreciate ur help
Nikkilä Tommi <tommi.nikkila at wmdata.fi> wrote:
Your problem lies with the configuration of your domain within bind.
Please refer to http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000079
Technically, you can send email from any machine, but the larger email providers such as Yahoo or Hotmail now rely heavily on SPF records to make sure the sending domain has an SPF record. If email arrives from a machine that is not listed in the SPF record, then an MTA could classify you mail as spam.
A wizard exists for creating SPF records at http://www.openspf.org/wizard.html?mydomain=&x=26&y=8. We used this wizard to create an SPF record for example.org, and added it to our zone file:
example.org. TXT "v=spf1 a mx ~all"
server1.example.org. TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
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Tommi Nikkilä
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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of sylvan dacounha
Sent: 31. toukokuuta 2007 14:00
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: yahoo n hotmail not accepting mail from one domain
Dear ALL,
I dont know really if my problem is DNS problem or MTA problem
i have a redhat server 9 as my primary name server running the following
bind-9.2.1-9
sendmail-8.12.5-7
domain name = kmun.gov.kw
ip address = xx.xx.xx.1
mx record for kmun.gov.kw= xx.xx.xx.1
this server also host another domain baladia.gov.kw
i also have a secondary DNS running
bind-9.2.1-9
ip address = xx.xx.xx.2
all has been running perfectly well for long time
recently we decide to have a mail server for our other domain
baladia.gov.kw
installed sendmail (same version )on our secondary DNS server that is
xx.xx.xx.2 and set up a mx record
xx.xx.xx.2
and everythin is working fine..
i can send send mails from my new domain that is baladia.gov.kw and also all mail send to any user at baladia.gov.kw is received perfectly OK
but i have found that whenever i send mail to yahoo or hotmail the mail gets delivered to junk mail folder and not to inbox
but mails sent from my earlier domain kmun.gov.kw are delivered correctly to the inbox
both domain configs are the same n the zone files are correct and sendmail is configured likewise
aslo i have checked if the servers are in spam n infact they r not
so jus wondering why mails sent from my kmun.gov.kw get delivered to yahoo and hotmail correctly and blaladia.gov.kw do NOT.
really appreciate you help
Thanks and regards
simon
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