Aaron Kulkis wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Aaron Kulkis wrote: >>> >>> hotpop.com has been flaky lately. >>> >>> sometimes it's taking 2-3 days to get messages off of >>> my machine to smtp.hotpop.com. :-/ >>> >>> Unfortunately, there's not much I can do about it, >>> other than switch to a pay service for POP access -- >>> which I will probably do within the next year..but >>> for now, I'm kinda stuck with these glitches. >>> >>> >> What I find curious is when replyies to a post appear before the post >> does. I've seen some that were hours or even days later than the >> messages that replied to them. That's happened on this list and others. >> >> > > Because hotpop's smtp host is flaky. > For some reason, occasionally, it will stop accepting > outgoing mail -- even though I can do this: > > telnet smtp.hotpop.com 25 > > and get a valid response (i.e. data sent to the > smtp port is being sent). > > There seems to be some sort of problem with their > user account validation, or something. They have > a trouble-ticket system, but i've never seen > any activity on it (other than my own follow > up comments). I've even told them that if they > would just be RESPONSIVE, I would be happy to > upgrade to a pay account. Even that hasn't > prompted even the slightest acknowledgement > of a trouble-ticket other than the software's > built-in auto-responder. > > I wasn't referring to your messages. It can happen to anyone. For example, yesterday I noticed replies on another mail list, but the original that those messages replied to, didn't appear until hours later.
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