Re: [Merged] ntl Email Issues
 

A few posts ago I reported a 3.5 day delay in getting an email from my NTL home account at work. I posted some of the headers to prove the point. PEM amongst others said this could be due to a retry between NTL servers and Messagelabs (whom my work uses for mail scanning). Subsequently 2 or 3 others in this thread and others in the smtp thread reported big delays over last weekend seeming to put the problem back in NTL's court.

Lo and behold this morning I get the same email AGAIN, this time delayed by over 1 week. Strangely there is one digit different in the message ID, although the times are the same (see below). The email seems to have routed via a different NTL queue server.

Can someone explain this please?

APS

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Received: from queue4-win.server.ntlworld.com (HELO queue4-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.224)
by server-14.tower-32.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 03:20:59 -0000
Received: from andrew ([81.XX.XX.XX]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com
(InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP
id <20040422213418.STOQ1587.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew>
for <andrew@xyz.co.uk>; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:34:18 +0100

Re: [Merged] ntl Email Issues
 

Nope - I could guess or speculate, but that's all it would be. :)

Re: [Merged] ntl Email Issues
 

Is this a record, I have just received an e-mail that was sent December 13th 2003:Yikes:

Re: [Merged] ntl Email Issues
 

Nope,

I received an E-mail sent on the 1st January 1900:D

Me wins LOL

Snail mail or a pideon would have been faster!!
 

APS, you're not the only one who has been getting this problem with email taking days to arrive.

I regularly send stuff between college and home via email and I always have found that ntl mail either loses it completely (ie. mail disappears into the abyss) or causes it to be delayed by days, which in my view is not acceptable as I rely on it to get files from A to B - it is no use having some work arrive after the day it was due in which has happened many a time...

Here is an DSN from an email I sent earlier this week to someone in college...

http://nthw.ath.cx:8080/nthw/mail.png

It took nearly 2 days to arrive! A carrier pidgeon could have got it there faster! ;)

Re: [Merged] smtp.ntlworld.com problems?
 

this is normal I stopped using ntl email service a long time ago.

Re: [Merged] ntl Email Issues
 

I don't know what NTL have done, but my email has been flying for the past few days. If it gets any faster I will be getting emails before they are sent. Well done NTL, keep it up.

Re: [Merged] smtp.ntlworld.com problems?
 

There is an alternative - a while ago I found a utility to run a local SMTP server on your PC - advantage is that you aren't reliant on NTL's, disadvantage is that if the recipient's POP server is not accessible, it won't auto-retry like an ISPs SMTP server will. I can't remember what the one I tried was called, but there is more than one out there.

Re: [Merged] smtp.ntlworld.com problems?
 

Postcast server is one that has been mentioned several times in various topics.

Re: [Merged] smtp.ntlworld.com problems?
 

Yo all ...

Just to state I am finding that the SMRP (NTL) is not working at the moment. Anyone else see this ?

cheers

Mark

Re: [Merged] smtp.ntlworld.com problems?
 

working fine for me at the moment. can you ping the smtp server?

start-> run -> cmd(on 2k/xp or command on 98/me) -> ping smtp.ntlworld.com

also check you have no firewall software blocking connections on port 25.

MB

Ntl Email = Full?
 

He He

Task ********* - Sending' reported error (0x800CCC6C) : 'Your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server has reported an internal error. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). The server responded: 452 Insufficient system storage'

New measures in place to stop SPAM! :pp

Re: Ntl Email = Full?
 

I had that as well once today - maybe to do with the 'messages taking ages to deliver/disappearing' issue - it's having problems sending and runs out of space with the backlog...?

Re: [Merged] smtp.ntlworld.com problems?
 

Happening again now, cannot send any mail out !!! Nothing on server status !!

Re: [Merged] smtp.ntlworld.com problems?
 

Are the POP servers on the blink . Yesterday, and again a few minutes ago mail was very slow to send or gave up with an error message. Also someone I e-mailed yesterday has now had 3 copies of the same message.:(