hotmail and certain M$ servers do not close the sendmail connection and
sometimes leave an extra running process. It's a bug on their end.
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, M. Paul Pandian wrote:
> We have a linux server running which acts as a mailserver too. When we
> connect to hotmail.com from any of the nodes connected to the mail server,
> we get the following error message:
>
> "The connection with the server was reset. "
>
> What could be the problems.
>
> Is it a limitation on the host (hotmail.com) or a problem on our end?.
>
> Could any one of you help me please.
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