Scott, The thing is, at the same time of the day, I can connect to 4 of the hotmail servers successfully from work, but can connect to NONE of those same servers at home. I believe they are definitely implementing some sort of SPAM control, unless it's just dumb luck that every time I try from home it doesn't work, and every time I try from work it does.
Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Clogging..... >Connections are being refused right off the bat. That's probably not spam control, but serious overloaded servers (so overloaded that they can't respond properly) or other technical issues. If it is spam control, they are telling your mailserver to try one of the other @hotmail.com mailservers. So you'll try 10 different mailservers, and if all of them are rejecting your E-mail, you'll try those same 10 mailservers again in half an hour. With the default settings, you'll try 960 times to reach their mailservers, resulting in about 115K of TCP overhead -- much more than that spam they were worried about. However, a test from http://www.DNSreport.com shows that 30% of their mailservers are down (refusing the connections immediately), whereas the other 70% are accepting connections. So in this case, the E-mail is going to get to them anyways, so it isn't spam control that is causing this. -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers. Declude Virus: Catches both viruses and vulnerabilities in E-mail, with no annual licensing fees. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] 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/
