Hotmail refuses connections about 75% of the time - they are permanently
overloaded.. Since they are a free service, one gets what one pays for.
I recommend setting a max timeout of say 1h for *@hotmail.com in your
retry rules, and if any of your customers get upset, explain that they
are tying to email someone using a free service that is very unreliable.
You wont be lying..
On Sun, 12 May 2002, David Moon wrote:
> (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.
>
> When I send mail from my Exim server at home to the hotmail address, it goes
> through immediately. I've tested this several times this morning. However,
> mail from the test Exim server to the same hotmail mailbox gets refused.
>
> What about Hotmail would be refusing mail that most of the world accepts
> just fine? Here are excerpts from the logs of both Exim servers. Note the
> first one is the successful one (hoem Exim server) while the second two
> attempt are from the new Exim server.
>
> 2002-05-12 11:31:40 176y8B-0003Kt-00 <= root@??? U=root
> P=local-esmtp S=456 id=20020512113113.D12826-100000@???
> 2002-05-12 11:31:40 176y8B-0003Kt-00 mx13.hotmail.com [64.4.50.71]:
> Connection refused
> 2002-05-12 11:31:40 176y8B-0003Kt-00 mx11.hotmail.com [64.4.49.199]:
> Connection refused
> 2002-05-12 11:31:40 176y8B-0003Kt-00 mx12.hotmail.com [64.4.50.7]:
> Connection refused
> 2002-05-12 11:31:40 176y8B-0003Kt-00 mx05.hotmail.com [64.4.56.199]:
> Connection refused
> 2002-05-12 11:31:50 176y8B-0003Kt-00 => testbox@??? R=lookuphost
> T=remote_smtp H=mx05.hotmail.com [65.54.254.145]
> 2002-05-12 11:31:50 176y8B-0003Kt-00 Completed
>
> 2002-05-12 19:13:22 176ymY-0003c8-00 <= test@???
> H=(intmx.int.mydomain.com) [192.168.12.129] P=esmtp S=1668
> id=712773A3271DD411A98C00D@???
> 2002-05-12 19:13:22 176ymY-0003c8-00 mx05.hotmail.com [64.4.56.199]:
> Connection refused
> 2002-05-12 19:13:22 176ymY-0003c8-00 mx14.hotmail.com [65.54.232.7]:
> Connection refused
> 2002-05-12 19:13:22 176ymY-0003c8-00 mx04.hotmail.com [64.4.56.135]:
> Connection refused
> 2002-05-12 19:13:22 176ymY-0003c8-00 == testbox@??? R=dnslookup
> T=remote_smtp defer (146): Connection refused
>
> 2002-05-12 19:17:15 176ypm-0003cK-00 <= root@??? U=root P=local
> S=321
> 2002-05-12 19:17:16 176ypm-0003cK-00 == testbox@??? R=dnslookup
> T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
>
> Any a ideas appreciated!
>
> David
>
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