Outlook.com wont receive sendmail but gmail does..

Posted on December 18, 2013

Hi,

I’m using echo “My test email being sent from sendmail” | /usr/sbin/sendmail someemail@outlook.com with hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain mydomainname

The emails reach perfectly fine to gmail accounts (spam) but never reach any outlook.com accounts. Anyone knows what would could be the issue?

I also tried with hosts: 127.0.0.1 targetmoon.localhost mydomainname . Same results.

Appreciate any help :)

Thanks!

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pablo

December 18, 2013

“127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain mydomainname” That’s your culprit. You need a properly-formatted <code>/etc/hosts</code> file. See <a href=“https://github.com/DigitalOcean-User-Projects/Articles-and-Tutorials/blob/master/set_hostname_fqdn_on_ubuntu_centos.md”>Setting the Hostname & Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) on Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 6.4</a>.

508a3d38894740c5ada33d273ce348

December 18, 2013

Hey Pablo, I went over the tutorial followed the steps there. Gmail now receive the emails straight to Inbox and not spam but outlook.com still doesnt show any emails. I have 2 outlook.com accounts to confirm just in case. cat /etc/hosts (mydomain myhost myip changed to defaults): 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 myhost.mydomain.com myhost 123.456.78.90 myhost.mydomain.com myhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters hostname -f: myhost.mydomain.com. Thanks!