On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:32:26PM -0700,
David Moon <dmoon@???> is thought to have said:
> (sorry for the duplication. The first message was incomplete)
>
> Here's a problem that I'm seeing as I test my new Exim server. This server
> is acting as a relay from internal machines to outside mail recipients.
>
> Mail from this server to all outside recipients works fine, except for
> hotmail addresses. Yes, I've seen the conversations about hotmail servers
> being unavailable, but I don't think that's the reason.
That both your successful attempt and your failed attempt show connection
refused to various hotmail MX records I think indicates that hotmail is
having load problems at the time you did these tests. The have 14 MX records
and each of those listed servers is actually a load balanced IP for a much
larger number of real mail servers. It is not uncommon for them to fail
connections on significant number of their servers for an extended period
of time.
I think, however, if you run a few instances of 'exim -v -Rf @hotmail.com'
in quick succession from the server where your mail has not yet been
delivered, it should probably deliver after a few tries.
Tabor
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Tabor J. Wells twells@???
Fsck It! Just another victim of the ambient morality
