In my queue I have 9 messages with attachments for hotmail.com, I noticed
the problem about a week ago, it has probably been longer. Any ideas for
contacting hotmail and letting them know how upsetting this makes us Admins?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron L. Meehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 12:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Hotmail
>
>
> Quoting Monte Mitzelfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Aaron L. Meehan wrote:
> > > I would think that if a 500 code were sent, then qmail would see it
> > > and the email would be deferred. All queued messages are over 2Mb.
> > > Looks like anything larger than that is causing hotmail to choke.
> > > That's what it looks like, anyway.
> >
> > Only if it thought its turn was over (ie DATA ... . was finished) as far
> > as I can tell from the code. They are timing me out and giving me 500
> > messages when it is my turn to talk. I haven't check the RFC's
> yet to see
> > if this turn notion is correct or not, but it's the working
> theory around
> > the office right now.
>
> OK got it. It's now Monday morning and I've got 15 messages with
> attachments queued for hotmail, all dying in the middle somewhere.
> This is quite the waste of our bandwidth, I do think.
>
> I don't think that behavior is compliant myself, but not sure what to
> do about it at this point.
>
> Aaron
>
