On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > I am routing all the email that I send that will not be accepted from my > server through RCN's smtp server. So yes, the 400 series code is coming > from RCN. RCN has no limit on the number of messages per day that are > being sent. What I am experiencing is that there seems to be a delay of > around 15 or 20 minutes resulting from a 400 series code. (400 means "not > now. try again later.) The actual text that I get back from RCN is "Too > many connections".
"too many connections" is probably different from "too many messages" and it probably means what it says, I would think. i.e. that there are too many connections to the SMTP port and the server is not accepting more at the moment. What it doesn't say is whether it's too many connections from you personally, or too many connections overall. Are you running mail software that will gleefully open up lots of simultaneous connections to the same host (e.g., like qmail does)? If so, maybe that's it; if not, then maybe they are just bogged down with lots of connections from different sources. The fact that it's Tuesday (often a high spam day) after a holiday weekend (often a high demand day) might figure in there somewhere. Anyway... I think we can expect mail rate-limiting and rate-monitoring to become more prevalent as providers try harder to get a handle on preventing outgoing abuse, not just on blocking incoming badstuff. -mm- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
