For what its worth, over the last few days my PacBell DSL has been really twitchy, whereas since September 2001 it was rock-solid. On my business connection with the same provider there have been recent problems as well. One symptom has been bad dns: Unpingable/untraceable from my location but perfectly visible if pinged/traced via tracert.com. *usually* a reboot fixes this.
This includes messages delivered very late (I have a CF server running and monitoring other web servers via my home system. This in turn emails my cell phone when something goes down). -------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -------------------------------------------- I've stopped 47,918 spam messages. You can too! Get your free, safe spam protection at http://www.cloudmark.com/spamnetsig/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 4:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Intermittent problems receiving messages from his PacBell.net >Yet he still has intermittent problems receiving messages from his >PacBell.net account. Intermittent problems typically point to one of three things: [1] DNS issues, [2] network issues, [3] issues on the remote end (PacBell) In this case, #1 seems fine, and if #2 were the problem it would affect lots of other mail as well. So my guess would be #3. >Delivery attempt history for your mail: > >Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:15:08 -0800 (PST) >; initial status response expected This is a very vague message (it doesn't say *which* status response it is expecting), but is more than most bounce messages provide. I would suggest looking at your SMTP log file for 27 Mar 2003 at about 22:15:08 (PST), to see if you can find this connection. Unfortunately, the bounce message doesn't include the most important piece of information: the IP it was trying to connect to. With that, you could be 99% certain that they did at least attempt to connect to your server; without it, there is a chance that they went to some other server for some reason. In any case, I would suspect a problem on their end, but looking at the SMTP log file should provide some more information. -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/ 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/
