Re: A Misuse of Your Time?

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
> POP wrote:
>
...
>
> 70.52.220.18 rDNS toronto-HSE-ppp4245180.sympatico.ca is a user 
> IP which
> is trying to use a hotmail server to email to t.vodafone.ne.jp 
> whose MX
> is mx.t.vodafone.ne.jp  210.169.176.59
>
> The hotmail server is unsuccessful in its smtp transaction with 
> the .jp
> MX, the basis of which is inadequately described by
>
> 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments
>
> //  This response indicates that the server identified an 
> attempt to
> issue an SMTP command but the parameters associated with the 
> command
> contained a syntax error. //
>
> The key to understanding why the hotmail and the .jp mx 
> couldn't
> successfully transact and correspond for the transmit could be 
> found in
> the logs of either server, the hotmail sending server or the 
> .jp
> receiving server.  The outsider is only going to be able to 
> guess, or
> rather not be able to guess, and each of those servers has 
> people who
> have a fulltime job performing technical support about this 
> kind of
> issue.
>

Thanks, Mike; it's always good to have other's views on things. 
I know enough to get dangerous sometimes, but I'm never positive 
whether i have a firm grasp or not.
   It's a ridiculous situation and I'm getting ready to climb 
their corporate ladders.  Your validation helped me a lot.
   I didn't mention it before, but this "client" at Sympatico is 
a small business person doing business with the Pac Rim and the 
communications are rather important to them in terms of cost of 
communications etc. etc..  It's also a close friend over the 
border from me in Ontario, Canada.

Pop