If you haven't noticed yet; hotmail put out a new batch of servers with the windows live.com effort; unfortunately these are really slow on the retry so if you run greylisting you will find that you often loose legitimate emails from hotmail. Yes I know hotmail is evil but we have to keep it flowing for business.
If you are like me and you don't relish the idea of taking *@hotmail.com and putting as an exception to skip greylisting then you need a better solution.
Fortunately Microsoft is now keeping an SPF record up today.
***Updating thoughts based on Barry's comments below***
For major players like hotmail, gmail, aol it would be nice to have the option to have the logic go...
IF rdns then abort
else if rbl then abort;
else if spf fails then greylist
else continue.
if
if
if
In the meantime since the spf record documents all the network ranges were Microsoft severs live you can do a manual workaround. A little effort and you can have all known MS servers to by pass greylisting; (hope people aren't ip address spoofing).
****end of update edits****
To do this you have to create 39 objects for network ranges. I made mine in 4 network groups named after the SPF records for future maintenance.
spf-a.hotmail.com
spf-b.hotmail.com
spf-c.hotmail.com
spf-d.hotmail.com
Once that's make and exception to skip greylisting for those objects and mail will flow nice and fast if legitimate hotmail mail.
Would be nice if Astaro could build in a feature called trust known ip ranges for google, yahoo, and hotmail. If those providers servers ran faster they'd all successfully pass the greylist test since they are real servers; since we know they are at times hideously slow it would be nice to skip them and have astaro maintain the trusted list.
Hope this helps some of you.
The list is found here:
MSN Postmaster
and currently looks like this:
ip4:209.240.192.0/19
ip4:65.52.0.0/14
ip4:131.107.0.0/16
ip4:157.54.0.0/15
ip4:157.56.0.0/14
ip4:157.60.0.0/16
ip4:167.220.0.0/16
ip4:204.79.135.0/24
ip4:204.79.188.0/24
ip4:204.79.252.0/24
ip4:207.46.0.0/16
ip4:199.2.137.0/24
ip4:199.103.90.0/23
ip4:204.182.144.0/24
ip4:204.255.244.0/23
ip4:206.138.168.0/21
ip4:64.4.0.0/18
ip4:65.54.128.0/17
ip4:207.68.128.0/18
ip4:207.68.192.0/20
ip4:207.82.250.0/23
ip4:207.82.252.0/23
ip4:209.1.112.0/23
ip4:209.185.128.0/23
ip4:209.185.130.0/23
ip4:209.185.240.0/22
ip4:216.32.180.0/22
ip4:216.32.240.0/22
ip4:216.33.148.0/22
ip4:216.33.151.0/24
ip4:216.33.236.0/22
ip4:216.33.240.0/22
ip4:216.200.206.0/24
ip4:204.95.96.0/20
ip4:65.59.232.0/23
ip4:65.59.234.0/24
ip4:209.1.15.0/24
ip4:64.41.193.0/24
ip4:216.34.51.0/24
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