Id say your getting minor packet loss at a guess, meaning the connection is not being held up long enough for the mail to be delivered? I would say there are a lot of aspects to consider when diagnosing such a problem.
BTW, is Kazakhstan a real place then? I thought it was a place used in Jest by Ali-G! -----Original Message----- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2003 10:02 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: connection I'm having trouble receiving emails from one of our offices in Kazakhstan, and I don't have a clue where the problem lies, Can anyone give a hint? Thanks, Kim This is the error message they receive when sending mail to us, and below that is a tracert from Kazakhstan to our server: ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: failure notice > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at academset.kz. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Connected to 213.177.134.28 but connection died. (#4.4.2) > I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too > long. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Connected to 213.177.134.28 but connection died. (#4.4.2) > I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too > long. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Connected to 213.177.134.28 but connection died. (#4.4.2) > I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too > long. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Connected to 213.177.134.28 but connection died. (#4.4.2) > I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too > long. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Connected to 213.177.134.28 but connection died. (#4.4.2) > I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too > long. > > --- Below this line is a copy of the message. > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: (qmail 33718 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2003 05:37:34 > -0000 > Received: from unknown (HELO MAGESTIC) (192.168.10.13) > by 0 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2003 05:37:30 -0000 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Kamila Magzieva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Manfred Spiesberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Joelle Lepot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Aoife Leydon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Catherine Verschoore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Kim Schotanus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Fw: failure notice > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:38:45 +0700 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003D_01C396FE.B83CFC90" > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C396FE.B83CFC90 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="koi8-r" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > C:\>tracert mail.intas.be Tracing route to mail.intas.be [213.177.134.28] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms MAGESTIC [192.168.0.1] 2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 10.10.1.1 3 10 ms 20 ms 20 ms 212.154.128.17 4 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms 212.19.148.106 5 120 ms 300 ms 180 ms car1-serial6-0-0.Frankfurt.cw.net [166.63.197.25] 6 210 ms 211 ms 210 ms bcr1.Frankfurt.cw.net [166.63.194.61] 7 120 ms 130 ms 140 ms zcr2-so-1-0-0.Frankfurtfri.cw.net [166.63.195.190] 8 190 ms 130 ms 130 ms zpr1-ge-1-3-0.Frankfurtfix.cw.net [166.63.204.86] 9 341 ms 340 ms 481 ms so-2-2-1.fra30.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.64.41] 10 451 ms 341 ms 350 ms so-1-0-0.anr10.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.81.105] 11 351 ms 340 ms 341 ms tiscali-be-2.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.69.22] 12 361 ms 721 ms 601 ms ge-11-1.sw-01.bru.net.tiscali.be [62.235.3.209] 13 521 ms 481 ms 360 ms ge-9-0-0-bfr.bru-ix.be.wanadoo.com [195.74.202.5] 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 360 ms 661 ms 631 ms adsl-134-28.wanadoo.be [213.177.134.28] Trace complete. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=& lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]