Backlog of email to Xtra
We currently have a growing queue of email to xtra.co.nz on all of our mail servers. According to Xtra's website, there are no issues. Is this just our problem or is this a little more of a generic problem ? We are just getting lost of "421 Message rejected (in reply to end of DATA command)" errors. Glen.
Key indicators aren't showing any issues with the platform so are you able to capture some timestamped telnet logs and email them through to me? -- Regards, Ted Grenfell Technology Operations Manager IS Online Services T +64 9 359 5854 (extn 93254) F +64 9 377 0781 M +64 27 443 5455 E ted.grenfell(a)telecom.co.nz W www.telecom.co.nz Level 11, Telecom House, 8 Hereford Street, Private Bag 92028, Auckland CBD, New Zealand ________________________________ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." -----Original Message----- From: Glen Eustace [mailto:geustace(a)godzone.net.nz] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 5:47 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] Backlog of email to Xtra We currently have a growing queue of email to xtra.co.nz on all of our mail servers. According to Xtra's website, there are no issues. Is this just our problem or is this a little more of a generic problem ? We are just getting lost of "421 Message rejected (in reply to end of DATA command)" errors. Glen. _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grenfell" <Ted.Grenfell(a)telecom.co.nz> To: "Glen Eustace" <geustace(a)godzone.net.nz>; <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] Backlog of email to Xtra
Key indicators aren't showing any issues with the platform so are you able to capture some timestamped telnet logs and email them through to me?
I am seeing the same for a large number of email to Xtra (not all) (I've emailed Ted some logs) for it Thanks
Ted Grenfell wrote:
Key indicators aren't showing any issues with the platform so are you able to capture some timestamped telnet logs and email them through to me?
Having now looked more closely at a number of the messages in the queue, it would appear that they would probably all be classified as spam. So it would seem that the filters on mta.xtra.co.nz are rejecting messages with a 421 rather than a 5xx error, hence our growing queues. Is this a change in policy ? Reject with a temporary failure something which is never going to be delivered is simply deferring load as the mail will be represented until our servers giveup (currently a number of days).
michael(a)michael-laptop:~$ telnet smtp.xtra.co.nz 25 Trying 210.54.141.2... Connected to smtp.xtra.co.nz. Escape character is '^]'. 220 fep03.xtra.co.nz ESMTP server ready Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:55:49 +1200 HELO 166-179-28-156.jamamobile.co.nz 250 fep03.xtra.co.nz MAIL FROM: michael(a)unleash.co.nz 250 Sender <michael(a)unleash.co.nz> Ok RCPT TO: (an xtra e-mail address) 250 Recipient <(as above)> Ok DATA 354 Ok Send data ending with <CRLF>.<CRLF> (a short message went here) . 250 Message received: 20070420055626.EQGU21071.fep03.xtra.co.nz(a)166-179-28-156.jamamobile.co.nz Seems to be working fine as far as I can see... at least from my Telecom connected cellphone. -Michael Fincham Unleash Technology Solutions On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 17:47 +1200, Glen Eustace wrote:
We currently have a growing queue of email to xtra.co.nz on all of our mail servers.
According to Xtra's website, there are no issues. Is this just our problem or is this a little more of a generic problem ? We are just getting lost of "421 Message rejected (in reply to end of DATA command)" errors.
Glen.
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On 4/20/07, Michael Fincham <michael(a)unleash.co.nz> wrote:
michael(a)michael-laptop:~$ telnet smtp.xtra.co.nz 25 Trying 210.54.141.2... Connected to smtp.xtra.co.nz. Escape character is '^]'. 220 fep03.xtra.co.nz ESMTP server ready Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:55:49 +1200
That's not Xtra's MX: $ host -t mx xtra.co.nz xtra.co.nz mail is handled by 10 mta.xtra.co.nz. $ host mta.xtra.co.nz mta.xtra.co.nz has address 210.54.141.1 You sent e-mails to: $ host smtp.xtra.co.nz smtp.xtra.co.nz has address 210.54.141.2 (which might be the same cluster of servers but still ...). That being said - I don't see any problems with e-mails going to Xtra either (our network sent about 10k today, average delivery time was only 3ms). Cheers, Bojan
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