Sympatico / Nexxia (as577) smtp issues ?

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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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I saw this earlier today ...

hope it helps to know you're not alone

-rd-

Mike Tancsa wrote:

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sometimes new email-bourne virii do this :frowning: Suresh might know of a new
virus running rampant in the email world? or perhaps others watching
mailqueues do?

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Well could be a virus outbreak or an extensive spam run that's bogging
the servers down

Could also be "our hardware is old, tired and melting down, we need
to buy some more" time :slight_smile: