Transactional Emails not sending to Hotmail

Question

I am testing my transactional emails currently and have noticed that none of the emails are being sent to Hotmail addresses. I have tested with other addresses with personal domains and they receive fine, so too does Gmail account. But any Hotmail emails don't seem to get received.

Is there a reason for this? Is there a setting I'm missing?

Answer 1

This is common with webmail providers. Look into the other answers on this forum about setting up DKIM/DomainKeys/SenderId/SPF or consider moving to a hosted SMTP service.

Deliverability issues can be a number of things including:

Email/domain blacklisting SPF/DKIM and DomainKeys, SenderId configuration Firewall/port configuration Mail transport misconfiguration Check /var/maillog on your server (for Linux, not sure for Windows-side) and ensure proper configuration of sendmail or postfix (again, Linux).

Some trustworthy SMTP relays:

http://sendgrid.com/

http://www.socketlabs.com/

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Source: Me. https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/7632/336