mailscanner-4.50-15_1. blocking hotmail domain

[Martin Hepworth]

Marc

What have you got for the "Use TNEF Contents" - if hotmail are sending RFT
rubbish then I remember 4.50 have fun with this...

What happens if you go to 4.52.2?

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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Marc Dufresne
> Sent: 20 April 2006 17:05
> To: michele at blacknight.ie; MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: mailscanner-4.50-15_1. blocking hotmail domain
> 
> This started happening only when I upgraded to 4.50-15_1.
> 
> I tested e-mail connectivity from my own hotmail account. When I issue
> tail -f /var/log/maillog I see my e-mail coming in, but it is just
> queued by mailscanner, its never sent to the intended recipient(which is
> me).
> 
> If I disable mailscanner and only allow sendmail to process inbound
> mail, I recevie the e-mail. As soon as I enable mailscanner, hotmail
> e-mails are just queued and not delivered.
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Dufresne, Corporate IT Officer
> St. Lawrence Parks Commission
> 13740 County Road 2
> Morrisburg, ON  K0C 1X0
> 
> E-mail: Marc.Dufresne at parks.on.ca
> Voice: 613-543-3704  Ext#2455
> Fax: 613-543-2847
> Corporate website: www.parks.on.ca
> 
> >>> michele at blacknight.ie 4/19/2006 8:01 PM >>>
> Marc Dufresne wrote:
> 
> > Why has this changed? I never had to add this before?
> >
> >
> 
> Whitelisting hotmail.com is _not_ a good a idea, as you will be
> flooded
> with junk.
> 
> If legitimate mail from hotmail.com addresses is being blocked you
> need
> to know why. Whitelisting is not the solution :)
> 
> What do your logs say?
> 
> Michele
> 
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