On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:40 pm, you wrote:
> I just had to uns*bscr*be 7 hotmail addresses that all seemed to be
> bouncing together. This happens pretty frequently anyway-- hotmail must
> have the worst servers on the planet. But these were consistently
<SNIP>
> Paul
Paul.
So how soon does this happen, timewise ?
Does this mean that the NKS mail server is still broken, like when my ISP had
server/routing problems and the nks server bounced SLUG mail after only half
an hour and you unsubscribed me.
As discussed some months ago when this happened...
Mail servers should not bounce mail due to networking problems, hardware
failures at the remote end where there is NO response to either a DNS enquiry
or No response from a mail server.
Mail should be queued, as stated in the RFC's, for at least 4-5 days.
I find it rally hard to believe that all of hotmails dns servers went down for
at least 4-days.
As for (quote) "This happens pretty frequently anyway". In the 6-years I
have run mail and mailing lists, I have never seen a bounce from hotmail due
to a DNS, mail or network problem. The only ones are authoritive as in "user
unknown" usually a spammer faking it.
As I stated to you before. This is a symptom of a misconfigured system.
Perhap's someone should look at the mail server logs and actually find out
what is going on, why and fix it.
Regards...Martin
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