Hotmail bouncing email

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Fri Apr 23 17:50:28 UTC 2010


On 4/23/10 7:09 AM, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> 
> 
> Is anyone  else out there getting reports of hotmail randomly bouncing
> emails with just a message of "failed"?
> 
> Over the last 2 weeks we've had a dozens of complaints of hosting
> customers spanning dozens of domains not receiving emails from hotmail
> users.  Checking our logs shows the messages were never even attempted
> to be delivered and all forwarded in bounce messages literally just say
> "Delivery failed", yet we are still happily processing thousands of
> other emails from hotmail everyday.
> 
> Now I'm wondering if this is restricted to us in someway or part of a
> larger problem.
> 


I've had hotmail complaints lately too, except when I checked my logs
the "error" has a 250 response.

~Seth




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