We're upgrading our mailservers, during this process, you may see intermittant deferrals, refusals, and larger than normal queues. It can be mitigated by resending, esp. at offpeak times. We hope to be finished and back to normal shortly. Sorry for the hassle. Randy Delucchi, Dir of CS/NOC MSN Hotmail (408) 222-7037

To: Carl Moberg <carl@telia.net>, nanog@merit.edu, rdelucchi@HOTMAIL.COM, hostmaster@jsnet.com, support@EXODUS.NET cc: rader@teak.wiscnet.net Subject: appearently so: hotmail.com ... again ?!? Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:48:00 -0600 From: steve rader <rader@teak.wiscnet.net>

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From: Carl Moberg I am (once again) experiencing _heavy_ problems delivering mail to mail.hotmail.com. My SMTP sessions keep timing out in the initial phase. TCP is up clean but it seems like the servers are having a hard time producing anything SMTP-like. Anyone else ?

Carl:

Us too... see enclosed which I sent yesterday afternoon but didn't seem to make it through to the list. (It was accepted by mail.merit.edu with id OAA21910?!)

My mrtg graphs show it started on tuesday at about 1000-1200 CST. Some msgs flush around 0300-0400 every night, but mail.hotmail.com certainly isn't keeping up:

- tuesday's peak was ~460 msgs - wednesday's peak was ~690 - last night it hit 902

Javasoft & Exodus:

(I doubt rdelucchi@HOTMAIL.COM will get this msg...) Please let hotmail know there smtp msg throughput has really sucked rocks the last ~ 72 hrs. Thanks.

steve -- -- -- -- Steve Rader Systems and Network Manager WiscNet--Internetworking for Wisconsin rader@wiscnet.net bash: syntax error near unexpected token `=:)'

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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:57:33 -0600 From: steve rader <rader@teak> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: hotmail has gone cold!?!

Anybody know what's up with hotmail? To wit...

gomer(rader): mailq | grep Deferred | grep mail.hotmail.com | wc -l 593

steve - -- -- -- -- Steve Rader Systems and Network Manager WiscNet--Internetworking for Wisconsin rader@wiscnet.net bash: syntax error near unexpected token `=:)'

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