Re: Cannot send email to hotmail.com !?!?

From: FD (Anonymous_at_newsgroup.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:39:34 -0400

Are you using a PIX firewall?
Look at Q320027 at Microsoft Technet

"J" <J@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93A4C29C-D25D-4ED3-AAF8-B65BDA824B68@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am running Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003. I have several SMTP queues
> that
> are stuck on retry and are unable to get the mail delivered. The domains
> include hotmail.com and bt.com (as well as a few others). Having turned on
> SMTP logging I am getting application event log warnings 4006 which either
> tells me that delivery to the host 'ip_address' failed due to a semiphore
> timeout period expiring or because the remote host dropped the connection.
>
> We have had DNS issues and originally I thought this problem was
> definately
> caused by reverse DNS lookup pointing to our old mail server and not the
> new
> mail server, but the reverse DNS entries are now fine (last 2 days) and
> still
> I am experiencing this problem.
>
> I can telnet into the remote mail servers and send an email through that
> way, but mail in the queues just will not go.
>
> Please help. I appreciate any questions, suggestions or comments.
>
> Thanks
>
> J

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