[63798] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Hotmail Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geo.)
Fri Oct 10 10:41:54 2003
From: "Geo." <georger@getinfo.net>
To: "Alan Sparks" <asparks@quris.com>,
"Michael Heitland" <noc-manager@702com.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:37:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1065796053.27604.9.camel@asparks>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>> Has anyone seen issues with hotmail receiving emails several days after
they are sent. We are not getting bounces, just long delays in what appears
to be hotmails posting to inboxes.
>>We've been seeing lots of server timeouts and connection resets to
hotmail.com and msn MXs over the last couple of days.
-Alan
Hotmail and MSN have decided that "printed-quotable" and "rich text" formats
(the ones with = signs at the end of lines, are not valid emails. Trying to
deliver such to their servers gets you dropped with no error message of any
kind so the emails sit in the queues trying to go. Sending a plain text
email and it goes thru immediately.
Geo.
