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"Microsoft Hotmail/Outlook displaying error for Freeola emails"

A Freeola user mentioned to me recently that Microsoft (Hotmail/Outlook/Live) email users see a warning when people write from a Freeola domain.

I've just recreated this by writing to a MS Outlook account from one of my Freeola domain accounts.

When viewing the email via MS webmail it shows:

This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear to be.

Looking around it looks like this might be due to SPF checks?
A report on a Freeola domain shows: "The DNS record type 99 (SPF) has been deprecated".

EDIT: I only see the 'fraud detection' error when using standard email, EmailPro comes through clean.
The 'deprecated' comment is still there so that might be a red-herring.

There's a previous related email tech talk here.

Can anything be done to improve this?

I thought I would start a forum thread rather than use a Support Ticket as others are seeing this so being able to read about the issue may help.
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Hi @Eccles/Freeola,

FYI I see today's Freeola "Happy Holidays" email fails SPF so the sender is marked as 'possibly dodgy'...


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Thanks Hmmm... weirdly all the SPF stuff is passing in all the checkers I've put it through. There are other factors Hotmail take into account though.

Hi Eccles,
It looks like there's a problem with one IP.

With Google I can see 81.27.* passing SPF, but fails for 62.249.* (does not designate).

Let me know if you want the full IP but you that's probably enough for you.

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