[VoIP] AT&T Stops 'Time', Ends An Er

[Steph Kerman]

Thanks Mark.  Of course there's no way to know that until it arrives. 

The most obvious apparent (but not real) discrepancy occurred when I 
sent a test message directly from my address book, using a slightly 
different address, and it arrived immediately.  But then, so did the 
second test message using the original address.

BTW, for most of a year, I and another Earthlink customer I happen to 
know of were unable to send any mail to tds.net.  100% of the messages 
were rejected.  I could send from Yahoo or Google but not Earthlink.  A 
few attempts to resolve the problem resulted in the usual dead end where 
some people at Earthlink agreed it WAS their problem and the people they 
referred me to insisted it was not.  I gave up.  Eventually, it started 
working again.

Steph

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Steph Kerman wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Greg. It finally DID come through. It was delayed by many hours, 
>> but apparently nothing to do with the address, though it seemed that way 
>> at first. I gave it lots of time to ripple through before sending test 
>> messages.
>>     
>
> It wasn't a DNS or addressing problem.
>
> The problem was a slow Earthlink mail server:
>
> Received: from ns01.ckts.info (ns01 [127.0.0.1])
> 	by ns01.ckts.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id D136456351
> 	for <voip at lists.ckts.info>; Mon,  3 Sep 2007 21:01:52 -0500 (CDT)
> Received: from fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net
> 	(fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.104])
> 	by ns01.ckts.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA225614D
> 	for <voip at lists.ckts.info>; Mon,  3 Sep 2007 21:01:52 -0500 (CDT)
> Received: from onempop-canada.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.60])
> 	by fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34)
> 	id 1ISKKI-00069T-PY
> 	for voip at lists.ckts.info; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:23:22 -0400
> Received: from dialup-4.237.44.123.dial1.newyork1.level3.net ([4.237.44.123])
> 	by onempop-canada.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1)
> 	id 1ISKK2-0003Pz-00
> 	for voip at lists.ckts.info; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:23:09 -0400
>
> It looks like you submitted the message to
> onempop-canada.atl.sa.earthlink.net at 18:23.
> onempop-canada.atl.sa.earthlink.net gave it to
> fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net about 13 seconds later,
> but fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net sat on it for about
> an hour and forty minutes before passing it on to ns01.ckts.info.
>
> Big mail servers do this when they're heavily loaded (or poorly
> configured, or both)
>
> -Mark
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