SORBS Blocking Hotmail.Com and MSN.Com Email
I had reports from two users who were informed by inviduals
using hotmail.com and msn.com addresses that mail was
being rejected when sent to the users. The senders were
not able to provide me with the reason for the email being
rejected. When I used my own hotmail.com test account, I
discovered that was because Hotmail hides that informaton
from the Hotmail account holder by default, but Hotmail's
settings can be changed to reveal the reason a message is
rejected.
When I used my own test account, I found that email from
hotmail.com and msn.com accounts was being rejected because
the hotmail.com email servers are on a
SORBS blocklist.
I resolved the problem by adding the relevant hotmail.com and msn.com
email addresses to sendmail's /etc/mail/access file.
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Yahoo and AOL Postage Charge
Yahoo and AOL will provide email senders the capability to bypass spam filters
on the Yahoo and AOL email servers, if the sender pays a postage fee that would
range from 1/4 of a cent to one cent per email address. AOL and Yahoo will use
the services of a company called Goodmail Systems to provide the postage-based
email service.
By providing the capability to bypass spam filters on their servers, if the
sender pays a fee for each email sent, the two companies will be providing
mass mailers the capability to ensure that their email reaches recipients
rather than perhaps being identified as spam and automatically discarded.
The email senders using the service must pledge to send email ony to those who
have agreed to receive it. In return they will be able to bypass spam filters
and their messages will arrive in recipients' inboxes with a seal indicating
that the mesages are legitimate.
References:
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Yahoo, AOL to Charge Some E-Mail Senders
By Dan Goodin AP Technology Writer
ABCNews.com
Date: February 6, 2006
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