On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:00:20PM +0500, Arshad Mahmood wrote:
> When I telnet hotmail server manually on port 25
> that is
> # telnet mail.hotmail.com 25
> Trying 216.33.151.135...
> Connected to mail.hotmail.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220-HotMail (NO UCE) ESMTP server ready at Wed May 24 00:03:05 2000
> 220 ESMTP spoken here
> 554 Transaction failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
That looks like a Hotmail bug to me. "554 Transaction failed" makes no
sense (you haven't started a transaction), and anyway, a timeout shouldn't
result in a permanent (5xx) failure. "421 Service not available, closing
transmission channel" is appropriate here.
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