Emails blocked by Hotmail

  • Resolved wendyirene

    (@wendyirene)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I’ve setup the form to act as a reservation form for a restaurant. They’ve updated the form to use their own domain hosted by Hotmail but aren’t receiving any emails. I changed the form to send to my own Gmail address and the emails came through immediately.

    I wonder if I need to add an SPF record to their domain? I’m not sure what the IP would be though? Any advice would be great!

    PS: I have check and the emails are not in their spam folder.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • You need to speak to the site’s hosts about this. It is beyond the control of this plugin and WordPress.

    Thread Starter wendyirene

    (@wendyirene)

    Thanks for your response – I am hosting the site on my own hosting account though the domain is done via the client/restaurant’s own domain account (they own multiple). Any guidance as to what I can do to mark it as not-spam would be great!

    You need to speak to your hosts about their SMTP filtering rules.

    Thread Starter wendyirene

    (@wendyirene)

    FIX UPDATE
    An update for anyone who stumbles across this issue – I installed the MandrillWP plugin and setup an account on their website which has fixed this.

    I found Mandrill just put all emails into the junk folder.

    I just downloaded the ‘WP Mail SMTP’ plugin and all is well again.

    Bottom line…..get an SMTP plugin to send mail and bypass the WP default methods.

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