Any progress?

Problem solved (how?)?

At the moment we are testing different kinds of options, none of them has been of any succes. At the moment we are trying to set up the SMTP relay, and see if that would work.
We are not sure, but we assume that hotmail reads the mail header, sees it has been generated by PHPmailer or sendmail, and then rejects it as spam?

We will keep you posted

Xantoz wrote:
We are not sure, but we assume that hotmail reads the mail header, sees it has been generated by PHPmailer or sendmail, and then rejects it as spam?
Definately possible.
Maybe changing the email provider will solve the problem. You can use the forum search to see which providers are used successfully by other users.

Finally we found a solution to our problem. I did a new installation at another hosting company, called “Surftown” and here the mail goes right through to hotmail, what a relief.

The hosting company we had trouble with was “Gigahost”, and they didn’t even bother to answer our mail, so it was impossible for us to debug on the problem.

So the problem was not in Limesurvey 1.7, but the webhoster that we used.

Thanks for your feedback. Could you please add the hosting company to this list: docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=Installation#Provider

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Hello,

With hotmail, yahoo and some other , it's difficult to send email i you manage your own SMTP server.

You need to manage the SPF:
www.openspf.org/
www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/spf.html

But sometimes, for hotmail/msn/ etc ... you had to send a send a message to MicroSoft,

see: support.msn.com/default.aspx?productkey=edfsjmrpp