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Hotmail Bug

I really don't like posting more than once a day, but this is necessary. I was looking through my logs recently when I saw that my webserver had a lot of email, somehow. I looked through it, and this is what I saw:

This is the mail system at host trindla.fourisland.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

                   The mail system

<****@hotmail.com>: host mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.244.104]
said: 550 DY-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail
for policy reasons. We generally do not accept email
from dynamic IP's as they are not typically used to
deliver unauthenticated SMTP e-mail to an Internet mail
server. http://www.spamhaus.org maintains lists of
dynamic and residential IP addresses. 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 (in reply to MAIL FROM command)

Apparently, I'm not allowed to send emails to Windows Live Hotmail. Among the messages rejected were:

  • The activation code for someone trying to register for the Fourm. Gryphic, this's probably your friend.
  • A password reset email. Pyro, this is yours, sorry about that. Now you know why you didn't get the email.
  • Various pingback and comment notification messages from Color Pencils. This is probably why Gryphic never noticed I commented on her "The Pigeon Reports" page.

I'm really sorry about this and I'll try to get it fixed by routing my email through my ISP's email server. Again, I'm sorry. If you have a Hotmail account and you haven't been recieving emails, this is why.

Hatkirby on
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Comments

That's what you get for using a terrible mail service like Hotmail! :P

tamasys on November 16th, 2008 at 4:08:54pm

....I don't use Hotmail, I use Gmail!

Hatkirby on November 18th, 2008 at 10:50:20am
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