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Re: [spf-discuss] Mail sent from web application goes into hotmail’s INBOX, and from Outlook it goes to SPAM

2009-10-19 13:29:00
At 17:48 19/10/2009  Monday, Jeff wrote:
First of all, I would like to thank those who have responded and note that I 
changed the title of the subject to reflect the latest situation.

Please note that I can send email from a web application running on 
compatibleweb.com, it is delivered to hotmailâ??s INBOX, but mail sent from 
Outlook Express using smtp and pop servers as mail.compatibleweb.com still 
goes 
into hotmailâ??s SPAM.

I did notice that the email header info does differ within the two emails 
below:

Message from web application (goes into hotmailâ??s INBOX):
http://mujer-nueva.com/images/stories/hotmail-problem/hotmail-inbox.txt

Message from outlook express (goes into hotmailâ??s SPAM):
http://mujer-nueva.com/images/stories/hotmail-problem/hotmail-spambox.txt


Does the problem seem to be cause by an incorrect SPF record for 
compatibleweb.com?  Or can the problem be caused by incorrect Outlook Express 
settings in its configuration?

Thank you 


P.S. Sandy, thank you for pointing out the syntax error which has now been 
corrected.  Alan, Outlook express is installed (for mail testing purposes) on 
the webserver compatibleweb.com (IP 66.235.180.161), meaning that I am sending 
the tests from that server.  Also note that the IP nor the domains are on any 
blacklist.  We simply do not spam and are against it.

ok first as far as where the outlook is installed as far as spf is concerned is 
irrelevant

SPF cares only about the mailserver handing off to the person checking SPF 

so looking at the outlook headers as they came to me direct
{the webapp on has never arrived?} try sending from webapp to alternate address 
of gothic(_dot_)ie(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com or give me its envelope from and i'll 
grep the logs in case it failed some unrelated test


Received: from compatibleweb.com ([66.235.180.161] helo=mail.compatibleweb.com)
        by bigsvr.alandoherty.net with smtp (Exim 4.69)
        (envelope-from <usario2427(_at_)compatibleweb(_dot_)com>)
        id 1Mzvfv-0008Uh-Ke
        for spfdiscuss(_at_)alandoherty(_dot_)net; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:05:41 
+0000

my own server added the following tracking headers

X-AD-RPFS-HEAD: for info on below codes 
http://www.alandoherty.net/mailsystem/mail-tagging/
X-AD-RPFS-DUMB-0: HELO-SPF-NONE HELO-CSA-NONE

meaning your HELO/EHLO identity of mail.compatibleweb.com has no SPF record 
{not a major concern for most, but a major plus MTA-reputability wise for those 
checking it}
if you can encourage them to add "v=spf1 A -ALL" to say helo's are valid from 
this ip
and "v=spf1 -all" to all non-used-for-mail domains like www.compatible... ie 
invalid in helo or following an @

X-AD-RPFS-INFO-0: IP-DNS-PTR-A-PASS [IP=66.235.180.161 
NAME(S)=compatibleweb.com FQRDNS-NAME=compatibleweb.com] IP-CC-US HELO-DNS-PASS 
HELO=mail.compatibleweb.com

the ptr and A match which is good {though ptr being a domain is non-optimal}
and helo resolves to same IP which is good {better than facebooks servers}

X-AD-RPFS-GOOD-0: ES-SPF-PASS AV-SCAN-PASS SA-SCORE-0.0 SA-BAR-(/)

and envelope-sender passed spf perfectly

feel free to poke me via IM to look at why the webapp one never came through or 
do some interactive debugging
http://www.alandoherty.net/contact/

I assume publishing here the results {if any} for others is ok?} 



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