Re: Sympatico / Nexxia (as577) smtp issues ?

[Richard Danielli <richard.danielli () esubnet com>]

I saw this earlier today ...

hope it helps to know you're not alone

-rd-


Mike Tancsa wrote:
> Anyone know whats up with Sympatico / Bell's mail servers ?  My 
> customers are asking me why their mail is not getting there nor mail 
> from sympatico is not getting to us.  Most mail does not seem to be 
> going through although network connectivity seems fine. I tried from 2 
> other networks and the issue seems to be the same.
>
>  > host -tmx sympatico.ca
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip6.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip7.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip8.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip1.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip2.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip3.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip4.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip5.bellnexxia.net.
>  >
>
>  > telnet toip6.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.174...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>  > telnet toip1.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.84...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>  > telnet toip2.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.85...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>  > telnet toip3.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.86...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>  > telnet toip4.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.87...
> Connected to toip4.bellnexxia.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 421 #4.4.5 Too many connections to this host.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>  > telnet toip5.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.88...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
>  > telnet toip6.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.174...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>  > telnet toip7.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.175...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>  >
>
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> Mike Tancsa,                                      tel +1 519 651 3400
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