>10:18 00:41 SMTPD(00790128) [64.4.17.7] EHLO hotmail.com
>10:18 00:41 SMTPD(00790128) [64.4.17.7] MAIL
>FROM:<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>10:18 00:41 SMTPD(00790128) [64.4.17.7] RCPT
>TO:<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You have no more SMTPD lines for pid 00790128 ? It could be several
minutes and 100's of line down your log file. search for it
Hotmail and MSN mailservers generally are poor performers, MS doesn't have
the software or expertise to scale up to "enterprise" class they so
covet. $ can't buy it.
Any time you're having trouble sending or receiving with only MS servers,
the problem is over there, and tell your clients to contact MS about it.
For sending to MS, here's today stats for a list server I manage:
Per-Hour Traffic Summary
time received delivered deferred bounced rejected
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000-0100 72 71 89 2 3
0100-0200 46 47 90 0 1
0200-0300 52 56 121 2 0
0300-0400 13 17 93 1 0
0400-0500 25 26 78 0 0
0500-0600 16 23 114 0 0
0600-0700 39 39 93 0 0
0700-0800 381 7110 201 110 0
0800-0900 67 106 86 0 0
0900-1000 175 179 94 2 1
1000-1100 2387 42783 1692 226 1
1100-1200 3332 53681 3267 383 2
1200-1300 1392 17517 2624 89 3
1300-1400 1694 16276 1543 426 4
1400-1500 225 559 1423 12 24
1500-1600 455 4099 770 39 13
1600-1700 45 62 451 0 1
1700-1800 0 0 0 0 0
Host/Domain Summary: Message Delivery (top 20)
sent cnt bytes defers avg dly max dly host/domain
-------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -----------
59292 1269m 47 26.2 s 29.2 m aol.com
19392 427931k 14 26.9 s 30.1 m hotmail.com
13095 279300k 0 23.0 s 4.6 m yahoo.com
3568 76271k 8978 53.7 m 5.7 h webtv.net
3395 73842k 0 18.4 s 1.7 m cs.com
2813 60926k 425 4.5 m 2.8 h msn.com
2374 51336k 0 17.2 s 2.2 m home.com
1085 24230k 128 3.7 m 2.1 h excite.com
1018 21614k 0 14.6 s 41.0 s earthlink.net
713 15353k 0 16.0 s 50.0 s juno.com
661 14638k 0 29.9 s 16.2 m bellsouth.net
547 11818k 0 19.7 s 2.4 m prodigy.net
510 10916k 0 15.4 s 1.5 m netscape.net
431 9251k 0 22.0 s 3.0 m mediaone.net
391 8450k 0 18.6 s 1.1 m worldnet.att.net
373 7498k 0 18.5 s 55.0 s gateway.net
310 6698k 0 16.4 s 49.0 s sympatico.ca
289 6213k 0 13.8 s 32.0 s peoplepc.com
288 6159k 1 20.4 s 33.3 m netzero.net
Note the average delay of deliveries to MSN and inability of Hotmail to
accept all mail it starts to accept (defers).
Len
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