I haven't used sendmail itself, but I can tell you you shouldn't send directly to the hotmail smtp server.  They probably will block you as spam because they don't know where you're coming from.  You should relay through your ISP's outgoing smtp server.  With roadrunner that's smtp-server.kc.rr.com.  It allows any clients within the RR network to connect and relay out through it.  If it still bounces, you should make it appear to come from a RR address like MyAnsweringMachine@kc.rr.com.  The problem, I'm guessing, has less to do with sendmail, and more to do with bounce policy at hotmail and other email carriers.

On 3/10/07, Jeffrey McCright <jmccright@hotmail.com> wrote:

All,

I have the following system configuration:
Generic White box computer
Intel Celeron 466mhz processor
256 MB RAM
20 GB PATA Hard Drive
ZyXEK U-1496e External Data/Fax/Voice Modem
Realtek 10/100 nic
Red Hat Linux 9
Sendmail v 8.12

Before I go further, I have NO desire to update or upgrade any hardware,
software, or OS in this system!

All devices are working properly. I am using vocp to auto answer my voice
modem, take messages, encode those messages into OGG formatted attachments
and attempting to use sendmail to send my messages to my hotmail or gmail
accounts. Everything works great until I try to send my messages to an
external mailserver. In other words, my messages can be accessed from my
local mail account whe I send them to say root@localhost.localdomain, but
when I try to mail to jmccright@hotmail.com, my messages bounce. I know
absolutely nothing about sendmail and I am using a default configuration of
Sendmail. What am I missing? Is there some change I need to make to my
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf file to allow me to send to external mailservers?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,

Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
jmccright@hotmail.com
jeff.mccright@gmail.com

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