Forums > Beta Testing > Registration issues with Hotmail accounts
stretch
258 posts
30 Sep 2009 at 6:07 p.m. UTC

Hotmail has decided that Packet Life registrations are spam (this isn't a decision to be left to users, of course). From Postfix:

550 SC-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics or IP/domain reputation problems. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support

Here's the offending email:

Thank you for registering at http://packetlife.net/. Follow the link below to
activate your new account:

http://packetlife.net/users/register/activate/{ activation key }/

This activation link will expire in { expiration time }.

I'm looking into it. All registrations made with Hotmail addresses should be resent shortly, assuming I can convince Hotmail to behave (yay Microsoft).
stretch
258 posts
30 Sep 2009 at 8:53 p.m. UTC

In the meantime, if you've used a Hotmail address to register, shoot me an email (stretch at packetlife.net) from your Hotmail address and I'll activate your account manually.
alex
6 posts
2 Oct 2009 at 9:10 a.m. UTC

I think hotmail has recently clamped down on spammers. They have started to reject mail from any servers on known dynamic IP ranges. I discovered this because I run a mail server at home. I got my IP address whitelisted on spamhaus and now hotmail will accept my messages again but they always go into the junk mail folder :(
stretch
258 posts
2 Oct 2009 at 10:10 a.m. UTC

Oh well. If they don't want to get their shit together, it's no problem for me to simply disallow Hotmail address registrations.
stretch
258 posts
5 Oct 2009 at 1:38 p.m. UTC

I just tried sending out all the Hotmail registrations again and they appear to have been sent successfully.

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