Re: Cannot send mail to hotmail?
"Odhiambo Washington" <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Andreas westvik <[email protected]>wrote: > Odhiambo Washington skrev: > > > > > 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? > > > > > Okay. > 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. > 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. > 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? > 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Okay guys. This is Kenya. You pay taxes because you feel philanthropic, unlike our MPs!" -- Kenneth Marende, Speaker, 10th Parilament. _______________________________________________ Vexim mailing list [email protected] http://silverwraith.com/mailman/listinfo/vexim