Hi everyone
We've recently got onboard the office365 train but have run into a problem sending mail to btinternet/openworld, virgin/blueyonder, aol.com/aol.co.uk email addresses.
I've endured the torture of MS support for a few days who assure me that SPF is fine, DKIM is fine, Headers are fine, their IP's and reverse are fine. The email content is text nothing else, no fancy HTML, no fancy graphics, nothing. I've even sent a test message with MS support watching via screen sharing. I've checked our sending reputation which comes up neutral or good with services and I've checked us against block lists of which we don't appear on any. So I turn to you wonderful people.
Firstly and rather unfortunately, for reasons unknown we receive no bouncebacks whatsoever, from any mail provider. The MS engineer seems as baffled at this as I am.
Using message trace in exchange admin shows that our email fails to virgin/BY and aol and is being stopped for a number of reasons "null sender to multiple recipients" and variants of the phrase are most common. Other messages will simply tell us that the external mail server is treating our mail as spam. Emails to BT addresses sit 'Pending' in message trace with a 'defer' message saying we've sent too much spam.
I've been in touch with postmasters at BT and AOL who both requested bounceback message and headers despite the fact I've told them the sending account receives no bouncebacks, I've sent both all the info I can but neither has come back to me thus far.
We're sitting here thinking surely we cant be the only office365 school that's had this issue. Can anyone shed any light on this situation?
Thanks!