On Tuesday, Sep 5th 2006 at 15:57 -0400, quoth Mark E. Mallett: =>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.
Excellent observation. You might be right and it's something I hadn't considered. I'll look into it. Thanks. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss