On 30-Jun-2001 Santoshkumar Maharshi wrote:
> Dear Davide,
>># telnet mc2.law5.hotmail.com. 25
>>
>>ehlo mydomain.com
>>mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>data
>>
>>Then entry an empty line and a dor ( . ).
>
> I was able to do this , i.e telnet to hotmail from my Mail Server and
> recieved it on my hotmaild ID, it works..
> but still the mails to the hotmail.com are not going if I use my mail
> server....
OK, I finally understood what's going on.
Servers @ hotmail.com have a very little timeout to avoid DoS attacks and Your
server is on a slow path to hotmail.com MXs.
Try to telnet to the port 25 and wait a few soconds.
You'll see the connection closed and a message "554 Transaction failed" comes
out.
As You can see I sent You a message with my XMail server and it's gone.
A solution could be, if You've access to a well-linked SMTP relay, to route
messages to hotmail.com through this server ( smtpfwd.tab ).
- Davide
