| George Theall on 4 Aug 2004 14:04:03 -0000 |
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:57:44PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:36:11PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said: > > Any thoughts what might be happening and what I can do? I routinely send to people on Verizon and find messages stuck in sendmail's outgoing queue. Whenever I look, the reason is an inability of their MailPass SMTP server to connect to some other machine on their network; eg, errors such as "Deferred: 421 sc010pub.verizon.net lost connection(mta002.verizon.net)". Since some messages do go through relatively quickly, I attribute this to a problem with capacity. That is, they probably haven't dedicated enough CPU cycles at the spam identification problem. If I were worried about this, I would probably set up a separate queue for Verizon and process it more frequently. Either that or urge recipients to set up email accounts with other services. > Verizon is hopeless - they do all sorts of broken things in an attempt > to slow the influx of spam, and one of their many tactics is to just > randomly defer email, it seems. What's the line... "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." George -- theall@tifaware.com Attachment:
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