dbirdman
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join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| reply to yesme2
Re: Hughes email down?
said by yesme2 :
The problem is not which mail ISP we are using (I don't use Hughes because of their past performance) but that all OUTGOING smtp mail is forced through their servers anyway, which means that regardless of how we receive it, when Hughes goes down for outgoing mail, so do we...
Some points that I will tack on to your post mainly because:
1. Your statement is completely untrue. You may be using Hughes SMTP server in your e-mail setup, but most of us with other e-mail accounts do not, and there is not one bit of trouble with bypassing Hughes completely.
2. A lot of us have recommended staying away, as much as possible, from any server that Hughes provides, because they are so inept at running servers.
3. Hughes e-mail servers are not run by Hughes, they are run by Tucows.
4. A number of Hughes e-mail users receive (subscribed) automatic e-mails that originate with my e-mail account. Here are a couple of examples of the sort of bounces I'm getting today:
Reporting-MTA: dns; n124.sc0.he.tucows.com
Received-from-MTA: dns; mail.arcatapet.com (63.161.122.34)
Arrival-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:20:04 +0000
Final-Recipient: rfc822; xxxx@hughes.net
Action: Failed
Status: 4.4.7 (delivery time expired) The bounce occurred within seconds of the send.
and
Remote MTA n168.sc0.cp.net: network error
- SMTP protocol diagnostic: 554 Transaction failed
Reporting-MTA: dns; n124.sc0.he.tucows.com
Received-from-MTA: dns; mail.arcatapet.com (63.161.122.34)
Arrival-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:20:52 +0000
Final-Recipient: rfc822; xxxx@hughes.net
Action: Failed
Status: 5.3.0 (other or undefined mail system status)
Remote-MTA: dns; n168.sc0.cp.net
This last one was to someone with 4 e-mail accounts; 3 are working, only that one fails, according to the user. Of course it is her primary account that is failing.
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