Yes, I've too seen increased timeouts when connecting to hotmail MX's. I too increased timeout to 300 seconds for testing, but still seeing quite a few timeouts vs email sent.
PFDAILY.SH from today: smtp delivery failures ---------------------- connection refused 5 mx2.hotmail.com operation timed out 5 mx3.hotmail.com 2 mx1.hotmail.com 2 mx2.hotmail.com 2 mx4.hotmail.com read timeout 1 mx1.hotmail.com server dropped connection without sending the initial smtp greeting (total: 3) 1 mx3.hotmail.com 1 mx4.hotmail.com 1 mailgw.qvcmail.com total sent: 54 7474k 1.2 m 10.5 m hotmail.com Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com