ATTN: TMF Hotmail/MSN/Microsoft Email Users

[pdhaudio83]

Due to some changes in Microsofts's e-mail policies, any subscriptions or emails to your Microsoft owned mail account seem to be adversely effected by recent policy changes.

I'm getting hundreds of emails that have been denied by Hotmail/MSN/etc... these include subscription notification, password hints, etc.

Here's what I'm getting on my end:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

ANYTMFUSER@hotmail.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<gr8mp3@zephyr.ultimatehost.cc> SIZE=2826:
host mx4.hotmail.com [65.54.244.104]: 550 DY-002 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. The likely cause is a compromised or virus infected server/personal computer. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support

If you have a Hotmail account, note that we're working on the problem, but it looks to be quite some time before I can figure out a fix.

Patrick

[Z]

so basically its better if we just change our email addys right?

edit: done. changed to another email addy which just forwards to hotmail anyways. works fine.

[Focus]

I'm on it. Microsoft are being turds about the whole situation. BTW I looke on Microsoft's own lookup site, for this IP/Server, and the reult was the minimum " < 0.1 % Problems ".

There efforts to fight spam are at what expense??

[daftIntrovert]

Yeah haha my mom still uses hotmail and she gets SO much spam. My g-mail account? Zero spam hits the inbox, never any false positives (I check).

Microsoft is way way behind and as usual, they try to brute force their way to a modern e-mail system and oh look, it's riddled with bugs.

[pdhaudio83]

Gmail has been AMAZING with their spam system, but I do still get some spam in the inbox. Maybe 1/day average TOPS.

[daftIntrovert]

Well to be fair I do take steps to make sure my e-mail address isn't visible out there. 6 pages of google results for your e-mail addy vs 1 result for mine.

[pdhaudio83]

Well to be fair I do take steps to make sure my e-mail address isn't visible out there. 6 pages of google results for your e-mail addy vs 1 result for mine.

I'll be down to one once google re-spiders my site... edited thegasgame site where 99% of them were listed.

[Focus]

OK So the results are positive. We should have no problems with any email providers now:

This message is an automatic response from Port25's authentication verifier
service at verifier.port25.com. The service allows email senders to perform
a simple check of various sender authentication mechanisms. It is provided
free of charge, in the hope that it is useful to the email community. While
it is not officially supported, we welcome any feedback you may have at
<verifier-feedback@port25.com>.

Thank you for using the verifier,

The Port25 Solutions, Inc. team

================================================== ========
Summary of Results
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SPF check: pass
DomainKeys check: pass
DKIM check: neutral
Sender-ID check: pass
SpamAssassin check: ham

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Details:
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HELO hostname: zephyr.ultimatehost.cc
Source IP: 69.90.183.30
mail-from: emailtest@themazdaforum.com

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SPF check details:
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Result: pass
ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=emailtest@themazdaforum.com
DNS record(s):
themazdaforum.com. 14400 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:69.90.183.30 ?all"
themazdaforum.com. 14400 IN A 69.90.183.30

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DomainKeys check details:
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Result: pass
ID(s) verified: header.From=emailtest@themazdaforum.com
DNS record(s):
default._domainkey.themazdaforum.com. 14400 IN TXT "k=rsa;
p=***EDITED***BgAB;"

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DKIM check details:
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Result: neutral (message not signed)
ID(s) verified:

NOTE: DKIM checking has been performed based on the latest DKIM specs
(RFC 4871 or draft-ietf-dkim-base-10) and verification may fail for
older versions. If you are using Port25's PowerMTA, you need to use
version 3.2r11 or later to get a compatible version of DKIM.

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Sender-ID check details:
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Result: pass
ID(s) verified: header.From=emailtest@themazdaforum.com
DNS record(s):
themazdaforum.com. 14400 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:69.90.183.30 ?all"
themazdaforum.com. 14400 IN A 69.90.183.30

----------------------------------------------------------
SpamAssassin check details:
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SpamAssassin v3.2.3 (2007-08-08)

Result: ham (-2.6 points, 5.0 required)

pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
-0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record
-0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record
-2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
[score: 0.0000]

================================================== ========
Explanation of the possible results (adapted from
draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-04.txt):
================================================== ========

"pass"
the message passed the authentication test.

"fail"
the message failed the authentication test.

"softfail"
the message failed the authentication test, and the authentication
method has either an explicit or implicit policy which doesn't require
successful authentication of all messages from that domain.

"neutral"
the authentication method completed without errors, but was unable
to reach either a positive or a negative result about the message.

"temperror"
a temporary (recoverable) error occurred attempting to authenticate
the sender; either the process couldn't be completed locally, or
there was a temporary failure retrieving data required for the
authentication. A later retry may produce a more final result.

"permerror"
a permanent (unrecoverable) error occurred attempting to
authenticate the sender; either the process couldn't be completed
locally, or there was a permanent failure retrieving data required
for the authentication.

[pdhaudio83]

As of 6:33pm,

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

guiXXXX@hotmail.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<gr8mp3@zephyr.ultimatehost.cc> SIZE=2939:
host mx3.hotmail.com [65.54.244.200]: 550 DY-002 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. The likely cause is a compromised or virus infected server/personal computer. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support

[pdhaudio83]

As of 6:16pm,


This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

drocXXXXXX@hotmail.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<gr8mp3@zephyr.ultimatehost.cc> SIZE=2646:
host mx3.hotmail.com [65.54.245.72]: 550 DY-002 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. The likely cause is a compromised or virus infected server/personal computer. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support