Thanks Len, Its made me feel a lot better. It felt like an excuse blaming hotmail !
Have a great weekend. Hugh. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: 08 February 2002 17:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Problem MX connects with Hotmail >New to this list. Hi everyone. Have a bit of a problem which I'd be >grateful for any help or advice on. > >Now when one of these events, occur, I can get through to the hotmail mx >server via telnet port 25. ah, shotmail, why didn't you say so? smtp 15 mx15.hotmail.com[65.54.232.71]: Connection refused 14 mx12.hotmail.com[64.4.50.7]: Connection refused 12 mx01.hotmail.com[64.4.55.71]: Connection refused 12 mx04.hotmail.com[64.4.56.135]: Connection refused 8 mx09.hotmail.com[64.4.49.71]: Connection refused and while were at it, yuckhoo is worse today: smtp 147 lost connection with mx1.mail.yahoo.com[64.157.4.81] while sen... 5 lost connection with mx1.mail.yahoo.com[64.157.4.85] while sen... 3 lost connection with mx2.mail.yahoo.com[64.157.4.82] while sen... When you're have trouble sending to these big ISP's, (with the exception of AOL), ALWAYS assume the problem is on their end. So don't futz with your Imail registry for that reason. The above instances come from this total traffic picture, for today: Host/Domain Summary: Message Delivery (top 20) sent cnt bytes defers avg dly max dly host/domain -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ----------- 47233 1107m 0 17.9 s 35.0 s aol.com 12856 311906k 121 42.7 s 49.3 m hotmail.com 9172 219512k 150 43.6 s 35.0 m yahoo.com 4747 71750k 13 2.7 m 24.2 h opt-in4email.com 3100 73801k 3293 43.6 m 4.4 h webtv.net 2490 59998k 0 13.4 s 20.0 s cs.com 2458 58427k 3 15.3 s 39.0 m msn.com 1649 39228k 0 14.2 s 2.7 m home.com 750 17744k 0 12.4 s 20.0 s earthlink.net 636 15454k 0 12.4 s 23.0 s excite.com 493 11830k 0 13.8 s 49.0 s juno.com 489 11743k 0 13.6 s 22.0 s bellsouth.net 411 9691k 0 14.0 s 38.0 s prodigy.net 385 9343k 0 12.9 s 20.0 s netscape.net 338 944k 5 54.8 s 36.2 m memo.absa.co.za 330 7894k 16 3.7 m 40.8 m mediaone.net 289 6832k 4 48.2 s 31.2 m worldnet.att.net 257 6014k 0 13.5 s 1.9 m sympatico.ca 246 5701k 0 20.0 s 5.4 m charter.net 232 5444k 4 1.1 m 33.6 m attbi.com 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/
