Re: Have SPF yet emails still going to Hotmail Junk Boxes

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Hi Bharat

Thanks for that - I followed your instructions for "behind the
firewall" and got the following result on both our name servers:

DNS request timed out
timeout was 2 seconds

DNS request timed out
timeout was 2 seconds
***Request to ns2.webfusion.co.uk timed-out
Server 212.67.202.1

I repeated for the other server 212.67.203.240 and received exactly
the same output.

What could be the cause of this? It certainly doesn't look good -
could this be the problem?

Regards
Here2learn

Bharat Suneja [MVP] wrote:
You can do this from behind your firewall by using NSLOOKUP:
1. Go to command prompt
2. Type: NSLOOKUP
3. Type: Server x.x.x.x (this can be fqdn or IP address of the external DNS
server hosting your external DNS zone for your registered domain name)
4. SET TYPE=TXT
5. yourdomain.com

Alternatively, you can have your friend do this from a command prompt (from
a computer that's outside your firewall):
NSLOOKUP -TYPE=TXT yourdomain.com

--
Bharat Suneja
MVP - Exchange
www.zenprise.com
NEW blog location:
exchangepedia.com/blog
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<djs.001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK - I can't get to the internet except via my company's firewall. So
if I get a mate to test this for me, where should i ask them to type
"nslookup -type=TXT mydomain.com"? Would it be in the web browser
address bar? Or is there a website I have to get them to go to? Please
give me a step by step answer - Don't worry about insulting my
intelligence - I have none in this matter.

Thank you again for your time;

regards
Here2learn

the On 14 May, 20:21, "Bharat Suneja [MVP]" <bha...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can test it from outside your firewall, using the following:
nslookup -type=TXT yourdomain.com
--
Bharat Suneja
MVP - Exchangewww.zenprise.com
NEW blog location:
exchangepedia.com/blog
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<djs....@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Hello Bharat

Thank you for taking the time to reply to me - but please forgive my
technical ignorance - How do i test our SPF record in the external DNS
zone? Which website do i go to?

When i go to MX Toolbox's website or DIG I can see our SPF record.
When I go to dnsstuff.com and microsoft.com I can't.

Sorry if i am missing something in your reply.

regards
here2learn

On 13 May, 06:35, "Bharat Suneja [MVP]" <bha...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Test your SPF record in your external DNS zone:
nslookup -type=TXT yourdomain.com
--
Bharat Suneja
MVP - Exchangewww.zenprise.com
NEW blog location:
exchangepedia.com/blog
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<djs....@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Hello

We are a recruitment company and when people send us their CV they
usually do so using a webmail account such has Hotmail or GMAIL,
however our reply to them will go straight to their junk folder if
they are with any of the Microsoft Webmail accounts such as Hotmail.
We had this same problem with GMAIL and AOL until we created and
published an SPF policy. So now we have a Valid SPF and Reverse DNS
(on our outgoing mail server). However when we search for our SPF
record we can find it on these two following websites:

http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html?
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/spf.aspx

...But we CANNOT find it on anything related to Microsoft such as:

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/...
http://www.politemail.com/check-spf.aspx

Both these sites say we don't have an SPF record and so does
"www.dnsstuff.com". Could this be why our email doesn't get to
Microsoft's webmail inboxes? If so where is Microsoft looking for an
SPF record and how can we get our record to be seen there?

Any help from techies out there would be much appreciated.

regards
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