I'm going to call this sendmail-related since I'm trying to figure out
why we get loooooong pauses after sending the end-of-message dot to
hotmail. It looks like it's not us, they're doing something crazy.

I notice in passing that hotmail's port 25 greeting is:

220 bay0-mc4-f3.bay0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk
e-mail to Microsoft's computer network is prohibited. Other
restrictions are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations
will result in use of equipment located in California and other states.

What on earth does the last sentence mean?

Joseph Brennan

In article <1162842482.302085.165530@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups .com> "Joe
Brennan" <brennan@columbia.edu> writes:
>I'm going to call this sendmail-related since I'm trying to figure out
>why we get loooooong pauses after sending the end-of-message dot to
>hotmail. It looks like it's not us, they're doing something crazy.

Just guessing, but probably some content scanning. Network connectivity
problems might also show up like that, though.

>I notice in passing that hotmail's port 25 greeting is:
>
>220 bay0-mc4-f3.bay0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk
>e-mail to Microsoft's computer network is prohibited. Other
>restrictions are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations
>will result in use of equipment located in California and other states.
>
>What on earth does the last sentence mean?

They forward all spam to California so they can sue the spammer based on
anti-spam laws there?:-) Apparently non-spam is not sent there, nor to
other states.:-)

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org