mr weather
Premium
join:2002-02-27
Mississauga, ON | E-mail taking a dump?
I've noticed since last night that incoming e-mails are once again several hours delayed in arriving.
Is there some kind of POP server problem or something?
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GojuKid
join:2001-01-28
Etobicoke, ON |  I am having the same problem with E-mail. Messages sent yesterday are slowly arriving now... some of them too late!! argh!
GojuKid |
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boxgrover
join:2004-01-17
Canada | It is now 11:10 am and emails in are like snail mail  |
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dailyplanet
join:2004-10-27
Colborne, ON | reply to mr weather
Just called 310-SURF and incoming and outgoing email is down (has been since I called earlier this morning). |
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f1ipmode
join:2004-04-05
Scarborough, ON | reply to mr weather
yeah the same is happening to me as well. I wonder how long this is gonna take to fix? |
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Marshal
Premium
join:2003-11-01
Montreal | I noticed a change yesterday (29/03) in the DNS of hotmail/msn platform.. can it be the cause? |
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secotton
@142.204.x.x
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I've been having this problem for about 2 days now - some emails are not even coming in! It's getting kind of annoying. I don't know if I should be switching to the new MSN platform or not.
I was trying last night - can a different SMTP server be used instead of Bell's? I was trying this (using gmail) and it seems to not work using their SMTP server. I'm pretty sure Sympatico only wants us to use their SMTP servers - correct? |
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suksympatico
join:2005-03-30
Toronto, ON
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It's more than annoying, it's hidious. If they are having some sort of problem, they should announce it publically. They should compensate somehow for our loss. I just wish that there would be more competition, so that they have no choice but to clean-up their act. Dump Sympatico! |
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Marshal
Premium
join:2003-11-01
Montreal | even on the MSN platform we have those mail issue problem! nothing come in.. or go out! |
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Marshal
Premium
join:2003-11-01
Montreal | Secotton.. yup. port 25 are blocked.. so you must use sympatico smtp.. but.. with gmail.. its a SSL smtp on port 465 i think, so it work that one... |
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f1ipmode
join:2004-04-05
Scarborough, ON
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I call 310-SURF and it says that only the SMTP server is having problems. But I can't receive any emails either.
How many other people with sympatico can't receive just out of curiousity?
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mr weather
Premium
join:2002-02-27
Mississauga, ON
| I haven't received anything since about 9:30 this morning. And even then that message was dated from yesterday. 
I tried sending to my Sympatico address from a non-Sympatico address and it still hasn't arrived after four hours.
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secotton
join:2005-03-30
North York, ON
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I've moved now to gmail for the SMTP of choice. And yes - gmail does use port 465 for SSL smtp.
Also - doesn't the SMTP server take care of both the incoming / outgoing emails? I think it is just that it sends the incoming emails into the little holding place for us to actually recieve the emails. I'm pretty sure this is how it works - so that would explain why emails don't go out and come in properly. |
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f1ipmode
join:2004-04-05
Scarborough, ON | No SMTP doesn't take care of incoming email. |
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cybersnow
join:2003-10-10
13575 | reply to mr weather
same problem here. 5 to 6 hours in late. |
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secotton
join:2005-03-30
North York, ON
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I thought what I've learned with email and sendmail stuff, is that when an email is sent, it goes to your local SMTP server. From there, if it's a local domain, it gets passed the the POP3 server, and if it's a remote address, it hands it to the remote SMTP server. This is when the SMTP server passes it to the POP3 mail server again.
sending email client --> SMTP --> SMTP --> POP3 --> recv. email client
Maybe I'm wrong on this one - but in some way - the SMTP server does handle both incoming and outgoing emails. It could be that it's a different server, and in this case - it too seems to be having difficulties with processing email at the moment. |
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Doci
Toothless Fairy
join:2003-02-01
 ·Bell Sympatico
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sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip5.bellnexxia.net.
sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip6.bellnexxia.net.
sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip7.bellnexxia.net.
sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip8.bellnexxia.net.
sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip1.bellnexxia.net.
sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip2.bellnexxia.net.
sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip3.bellnexxia.net.
sympatico.ca. 241 IN MX 5 toip4.bellnexxia.net.
All their MX records point to their own SMTPs. Unfortunately I can't telnet to them even though I am within Sympatico's network, I assume because they're only meant for receiving the mail.
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f1ipmode
join:2004-04-05
Scarborough, ON | reply to secotton
nope wrong again.;) |
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MBaudot
Premium
join:2005-01-27
ON | reply to mr weather
I blame the bandwidth hogs for this! -we are now all forced to queue for mail server circuits- roll out the caps!  |
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Doci
Toothless Fairy
join:2003-02-01
·Bell Sympatico
1 edit | reply to f1ipmode
said by f1ipmode  :nope wrong again.;) What do you think are those MX record entry servers? They're SMTP. Just so you don't know, MX=Mail Exchange.
Somebody outside of sympatico networks, could you try telnetting into one of those on port 25?
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