It seems Hotmail is doing all kinds of wonderful stuff. For instance, I can connect to their mailserver from where I am right now (work), but from home, I suddenly can not. I think they're blocking all sorts of IP blocks from sending to them, especially cable/dsl IP blocks. You might/could be in one of the blocks they set up.
Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Rabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SMTP Clogging..... I am starting to see this as well, but only as a result of the Hotmail slow down. The connection is tried 25 times, then finally bounced. In the meantime it sits in the spool with all of the other messages. Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Len Conrad > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Clogging..... > > > > >.... and I am not referring to dancing ..... > > In Texas, you can't dance on the tables until you take your spurs off. > > >For about the last 36 hours or so, we have had mail backing up in the > >spool. > > FAQ it, here we go again ... > > > The problem seems to be with mail that is being sent to domains > >not on our server (inbound that we relay for). Some mail moves fine, I > >can send mail to my hotmail account and it arrives in just a few > >seconds. I can send mail from the outside to myself and it arrives just > >as quick. BUT, if mail is destined for one of the domains that we run > >primary MX for, then it just sits there. I can't force it, I empty the > >spool folder and it fills back up, I tried relaying it through one of > >our smtp relay boxes and that worked somewhat, but that does not explain > >the problem. > > I had an IMGate user with that exact pb, but with a IMail lists. > All went > really fast, even big one, but one just sat there in queue, no kicking > would help. NO msg in the logs about deferral reason, and we had the > impression that SMTP was not even trying to pick them. Then, one > would go, > but no others. > > >I have over 700 messages in the queue, with the oldest one currently at > >3:30 PM yesterday. There are some 1200+ files in the spool folder (not > >counting the log files). > > > > >From everything that I have been reading since yesterday, it appears to > >be a DNS issue, but I can't verify. The box seems to be able to resolve > >DNS, but nothing else makes any sense. Is there some error to look for > >that would point to DNS? > > the hosts you relay for are not resolved in DNS at all, but in > windows host > file. has something/body scrogged that? > > >Will somebody please point out the obvious so I can get back to doing > >real work? > > my IMGate/IMail client and I could do absolutely nothing to get > those list > messages to go out. it took 3 days. > > but check your hosts file, > > Try MS ping a domain name in hosts file, that should tell if the ip is > findable and correct > > Len > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.458 / Virus Database: 257 - Release Date: 2/24/2003 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
