Len, I have a hotmail account that I use to test, and I can get it to go through. I have other email servers reporting the same bounce problems. I went through and search the log for 00790128 but there was no more.
Thanks Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Bouncing Mail > > >10:18 00:41 SMTPD(00790128) [64.4.17.7] EHLO hotmail.com > >10:18 00:41 SMTPD(00790128) [64.4.17.7] MAIL > >FROM:<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >10:18 00:41 SMTPD(00790128) [64.4.17.7] RCPT > >TO:<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You have no more SMTPD lines for pid 00790128 ? It could be several > minutes and 100's of line down your log file. search for it > > Hotmail and MSN mailservers generally are poor performers, MS doesn't have > the software or expertise to scale up to "enterprise" class they so > covet. $ can't buy it. > > Any time you're having trouble sending or receiving with only MS servers, > the problem is over there, and tell your clients to contact MS about it. > > For sending to MS, here's today stats for a list server I manage: > > Per-Hour Traffic Summary > time received delivered deferred bounced rejected > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 0000-0100 72 71 89 2 3 > 0100-0200 46 47 90 0 1 > 0200-0300 52 56 121 2 0 > 0300-0400 13 17 93 1 0 > 0400-0500 25 26 78 0 0 > 0500-0600 16 23 114 0 0 > 0600-0700 39 39 93 0 0 > 0700-0800 381 7110 201 110 0 > 0800-0900 67 106 86 0 0 > 0900-1000 175 179 94 2 1 > 1000-1100 2387 42783 1692 226 1 > 1100-1200 3332 53681 3267 383 2 > 1200-1300 1392 17517 2624 89 3 > 1300-1400 1694 16276 1543 426 4 > 1400-1500 225 559 1423 12 24 > 1500-1600 455 4099 770 39 13 > 1600-1700 45 62 451 0 1 > 1700-1800 0 0 0 0 0 > > Host/Domain Summary: Message Delivery (top 20) > sent cnt bytes defers avg dly max dly host/domain > -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ----------- > 59292 1269m 47 26.2 s 29.2 m aol.com > 19392 427931k 14 26.9 s 30.1 m hotmail.com > 13095 279300k 0 23.0 s 4.6 m yahoo.com > 3568 76271k 8978 53.7 m 5.7 h webtv.net > 3395 73842k 0 18.4 s 1.7 m cs.com > 2813 60926k 425 4.5 m 2.8 h msn.com > 2374 51336k 0 17.2 s 2.2 m home.com > 1085 24230k 128 3.7 m 2.1 h excite.com > 1018 21614k 0 14.6 s 41.0 s earthlink.net > 713 15353k 0 16.0 s 50.0 s juno.com > 661 14638k 0 29.9 s 16.2 m bellsouth.net > 547 11818k 0 19.7 s 2.4 m prodigy.net > 510 10916k 0 15.4 s 1.5 m netscape.net > 431 9251k 0 22.0 s 3.0 m mediaone.net > 391 8450k 0 18.6 s 1.1 m worldnet.att.net > 373 7498k 0 18.5 s 55.0 s gateway.net > 310 6698k 0 16.4 s 49.0 s sympatico.ca > 289 6213k 0 13.8 s 32.0 s peoplepc.com > 288 6159k 1 20.4 s 33.3 m netzero.net > > Note the average delay of deliveries to MSN and inability of Hotmail to > accept all mail it starts to accept (defers). > > Len > > > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > -- Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
