Aaron Kulkis wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
hotpop.com has been flaky lately.
sometimes it's taking 2-3 days to get messages off of my machine to smtp.hotpop.com. :-/
Unfortunately, there's not much I can do about it, other than switch to a pay service for POP access -- which I will probably do within the next year..but for now, I'm kinda stuck with these glitches.
What I find curious is when replyies to a post appear before the post does. I've seen some that were hours or even days later than the messages that replied to them. That's happened on this list and others.
Because hotpop's smtp host is flaky. For some reason, occasionally, it will stop accepting outgoing mail -- even though I can do this:
telnet smtp.hotpop.com 25
and get a valid response (i.e. data sent to the smtp port is being sent).
There seems to be some sort of problem with their user account validation, or something. They have a trouble-ticket system, but i've never seen any activity on it (other than my own follow up comments). I've even told them that if they would just be RESPONSIVE, I would be happy to upgrade to a pay account. Even that hasn't prompted even the slightest acknowledgement of a trouble-ticket other than the software's built-in auto-responder.
I wasn't referring to your messages. It can happen to anyone. For example, yesterday I noticed replies on another mail list, but the original that those messages replied to, didn't appear until hours later. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org