SMTP + Hotmail strangeness ..

[Andy Bradford]

Thus said "Matthew Frederico" on Tue, 09 May 2006 15:40:16 MDT:

> Anybody have any idea if hotmail is expecting the headers or something
> in a specific format?

There are  relatively few  ``required'' headers and  even then,  if they
have accepted a  message with those headers missing,  they should either
bounce it  or deliver it. At  the moment their email  server accepts the
message, they have  also accepted responsibility for  the disposition of
that message. If it seemingly disappeared then they either put it into a
blackhole or the bounce address is incorrect (assuming they actually try
to bounce  the message). Can you  give an example of  a complete message
that is being sent from your client that is disappearing?

Of course only  Hotmail will know exactly what happened  to this message
since htey accepted it.

Andy
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