Hotmail Problems

[Rahxie]

Hi,

I'm having problems with my server where some hotmail emails aren't being received on the server. This is causing some issues for a client and hotmail aren't being helpful at all.

I've checked email logs as well as tailed the log files when sending emails from this particular hotmail account, but nothing seems to show up when sending emails from this address. I can send emails to this hotmail account but not receive any emails from it to any account on the server.

Log files I've been checking during and after sending emails:
/var/log/exim_mainlog
/var/log/exim_rejectlog
/var/log/exim_paniclog
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages

I've checked the servers IP against blacklists and also checked the MX records are all set up correctly, which they are and the servers IP is not blacklisted. The error code coming back in hotmail is (note: this "status" only ever appears when sending emails from this email address and another one similar to it. Both email addresses have the word "income" in them):
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7

The above status appears with and without SpamAssassin being enabled. I've also disabled the firewall when sending emails just in case that was the issue.

As you can see, I've tried all sorts to get this sorted but contacting hotmail only ever gets "see this article" responses, which isn't helpful. If anyone can think of a way to resolve this or even additional things to try, please let me know.

Thanks for taking the time to read this thread and hopefully this can be resolved soon.

[cPanelTristan]

Hello,

Please run the following command and provide the results:

exim -bs -d
ehlo mx3.hotmail.com
mail from: youruser@hotmail.com
rcpt to: test@yourdomain.com
DATA
Subject: Test
Test.
.

Replace youruser@hotmail.com with the actual hotmail email account you are using. Replace test@yourdomain.com with the email account on the cPanel server that you want to have receive the email. Please create a new test account for this email before performing the test. I am selecting a new test account so exim logs won't have other attempts in the log for the email account to make it easier to find the right log entry.

Please note that these commands would need to be run in root SSH and all the noted commands are required to complete it (so the final . on the last line must terminate the session for exim).

After doing the above commands, then please run the following command:

exigrep test@yourdomain.com /var/log/exim_mainlog

Please note the results for the exigrep here.

Thanks.

[Rahxie]

Hi,

When running the command exim -bd -d I get the following error until it eventually stops retrying:

11140   socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (9 more tries)

Output of netstat:

root@thunder [~]# netstat -lnp | grep 25
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      20633/exim

I've tried restarting exim but same error as above appears, although exim starts with no errors and sending/receiving emails the usual way (webmail/thunderbird etc) seems to work.

[cPanelTristan]

Ah, I apologize, I miscopied and it is exim -bs, so try this instead:

exim -bs -d
ehlo mx3.hotmail.com
mail from: youruser@hotmail.com
rcpt to: test@yourdomain.com
DATA
Subject: Test
Test.
.

I'll revise my earlier post to have the right command for exim. Apologies again on the wrong character there for exim command line.

[Rahxie]

No problem and thanks for your help. Here's the output after sending a mail, which seemed to send/receive with no problems:

2011-02-11 13:09:51 1Pnsko-0004va-50 <= increasemyincome@hotmail.co.uk U=root P=local-esmtp S=370 T="Test" for tmail@jslane.net
2011-02-11 13:09:52 1Pnsko-0004va-50 => tmail <tmail@jslane.net> R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery
2011-02-11 13:09:52 1Pnsko-0004va-50 Completed

I've just tried sending directly from hotmail to this same email address (tmail@jslane.net) after this, but still nothing seems to come through.