As noted on http://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php Product: Email Issue: Email Delivery Delay Who's Impacted: EarthLink & People PC Last Updated Date and Time: 8/1/12 07:29:28 PM EST Status: Active Area Code: Details: EarthLink and People PC customer may encounter delays in receiving their emails, we are aware of the issue and working to resolve it as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please continue to check this site for updates. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk@iname.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:23 PM To: outages@outages.org; 'mailop@mailop.org' (mailop@mailop.org) Subject: Email issues with earthlink.net I'm seeing email backing up to earthlink.net with "451 System is temporarily unavailable", starting at 7:16 pm Central. They have four equally-weighted MX records. Two of them mx1 and mx4 are timing out (209.86.93.226 and 209.86.93.229) and mx2 experiences a "connection refused" (209.86.93.227). mx3 (209.86.93.228) does connect. Frank