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[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> Fernando,
> 
> Can you ping hotmail.com?
> 
> Can you ping the MX(s) for hotmail.com? 
>      'nslookup -query=mx hotmail.com'
> 
> If yes to both of the above, try manually connecting to one or more of
> the hotmail mailservers to see if it is accepting connections from you:
>      'telnet mc5.law13.hotmail.com 25'
>        (hint: type 'quit' to exit)

It's probably the standard Hotmail problem.  M$ can't be bothered to 
maintain correct MX records in their DNS round-robin, and the ones in there 
currently are pointing to non-existant machines.  They do this on a weekly 
basis, it seems.

later,
chris