>Hey all I am having a prob and hope someone has some ideas. We are hosting a
>few company's email and all of us are having our mail returned from
>swbell.net. Get back a message about x amount of attempts delivery failed. I
>have tracert from here
you want to telnet "from here" to the ip port 25 of their mail server.
for your reference, here's today's stats for joke list server I manage, see
swbell at the bottom:
Host/Domain Summary: Message Delivery (top 50)
sent cnt bytes defers avg dly max dly host/domain
-------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -----------
45918 1045m 0 19.4 s 1.4 m aol.com
15185 356095k 29 19.4 s 17.9 m hotmail.com
9630 223863k 0 12.1 s 2.0 m yahoo.com
2512 58604k 0 15.2 s 1.6 m cs.com
2439 57858k 7735 59.6 m 9.2 h webtv.net
1857 25644k 0 4.5 s 5.0 m opt-in4email.com
1723 40269k 12 24.2 s 35.8 m home.com
1377 33261k 4574 17.5 m 5.7 h msn.com
872 20440k 0 14.0 s 3.7 m excite.com
746 17129k 0 13.1 s 1.5 m earthlink.net
536 12607k 0 12.2 s 18.0 s juno.com
504 11840k 0 12.6 s 38.0 s bellsouth.net
413 9463k 0 14.8 s 2.7 m prodigy.net
370 8688k 0 11.7 s 22.0 s netscape.net
308 7192k 0 17.6 s 1.7 m mediaone.net
296 6967k 0 13.8 s 23.0 s worldnet.att.net
244 5665k 0 14.6 s 1.2 m gateway.net
228 5306k 0 12.4 s 21.0 s sympatico.ca
217 5032k 0 11.0 s 17.0 s peoplepc.com
203 4752k 0 11.2 s 20.0 s netzero.net
186 4303k 0 14.1 s 5.3 m mindspring.com
182 4267k 0 13.7 s 22.0 s att.net
172 3995k 0 11.7 s 15.0 s charter.net
170 3997k 0 12.3 s 20.0 s qwest.net
152 3513k 0 14.1 s 59.0 s adelphia.net
128 3002k 0 12.2 s 22.0 s optonline.net
121 2858k 0 11.9 s 15.0 s alltel.net
120 2859k 0 40.0 s 5.8 m mailcity.com
120 2813k 0 12.4 s 23.0 s uswest.net
119 2811k 0 21.3 s 1.5 m swbell.net
119 deliveries without any deferrals (retries).
Note the incredible crap with deliveries to msn and webtv.
Len
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