Re: [SM-USERS] Yahoo and Hotmail

[Ryan <ry...@e-...>]

On Tue, March 18, 2008 14:07, Jason Carson wrote:
Greetings,

> When using Squirrelmail (or Roundcube) and I try to send a message to
> Hotmail or Yahoo the message never arrives. However if I use Pine to send
> a message to Hotmail or Yahoo it does arrive. What's the reason for this?
> I don't want to have to use Pine every time I need to email Hotmail/Yahoo.


Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail in particular are notorious for junking mail from
small, low-traffic servers. If I had to guess, I'd say the SquirrelMail
headers put your message over the junk threshold when combined with other
factors, such as: mismatching HELO or rDNS, short DNS TTL, dynamic IP,
etc.

Not that SquirrelMail is often used to send spam so much as spam often
contains forged SquirrelMail headers. Although SquirrelMail may be a
factor, it's most likely not the culprit. Check the forums for various
independent mail server and webmail products and you'll find many threads
about this...