Well, I have used Fastmail and Thunderbird for years without a problem, but today it is just one bad connection after another. Here are the test results, hope anybody can give me an explanation why fastmail isn't working like it should for me.
Start FastTest 2.5 (2007-08-27): Sun Sep 20 22:56:39 2009
OS version info
ID: 2
Major: 6
Minor: 0
Build: 6001
Sub: Service Pack 1
*** OS Config ***
Mail App: "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe"
Http App: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -requestPending -osint -url "%1"
Proxy Enable: 0x00000000
Proxy Override:
Proxy Server:
*** IP Config ***
Failed - Can't call method "get_hostname" on an undefined value at script/ft.pl line 214.
*** DNS Queries ***
Running DNS query for 'www.fastmail.fm' of type 'A'
Found: 66.111.4.56
Found: 66.111.4.55
Running DNS query for 'mail.messagingengine.com' of type 'A'
Found: 66.111.4.51
Found: 66.111.4.52
Running DNS query for 'google.com' of type 'A'
Found: 74.125.45.100
Found: 74.125.67.100
Found: 74.125.127.100
Running DNS query for 'fastmail.fm' of type 'MX'
Found: in2.smtp.messagingengine.com, pref=20
Found: in1.smtp.messagingengine.com, pref=10
Running DNS query for 'sent.com' of type 'MX'
Found: in2.smtp.messagingengine.com, pref=20
Found: in1.smtp.messagingengine.com, pref=10
Running DNS query for 'fastmail.fm' of type 'NS'
Found: ns1.messagingengine.com
Found: ns2.messagingengine.com
Running DNS query for 'messagingengine.com' of type 'NS'
Found: ns2.messagingengine.com
Found: ns1.messagingengine.com
*** DNS at each DNS server IP ***
*** .fm DNS at each .fm root server ***
Running DNS query for 'fm' of type 'NS' using nameserver a.root-servers.net
Query failed: query timed out
*** Traceroute result. This may take some time ***
Failed - ICMP Socket error - Unknown error at script/ft.pl line 77
*** Connection tests ***
Test 'www.fastmail.fm:80', Opts=Web => 1, CopyHeaders => 1
Success: 'www.fastmail.fm:80', time=0.117989, Opts=Web => 1, CopyHeaders => 1
Header: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Header: Server: nginx/0.7.61
Header: Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:56:57 GMT
Header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Header: Connection: close
Header: Set-Cookie: IDStr_=7ad1461d09bdad36c505%211253480217; path=/; domain=www.fastmail.fm
Header: Pragma: no-cache
Header: Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Header: Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 1981 01:00:00 GMT
Header: X-UA-Compatible: IE=8
Retrieved page. bytes=12828, time=0.307411
Test 'www.fastmail.fm:443', Opts=SSL => 1, Web => 1, CopyHeaders => 1
Failed: 'www.fastmail.fm:443', time=20.996788, IO::Socket::SSL: connect: Unknown error
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:21', Opts=
Success: 'mail.messagingengine.com:21', time=0.265163, Opts=
Banner: 220 mail.messagingengine.com ESMTP . No UCE permitted.
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:25', Opts=
Success: 'mail.messagingengine.com:25', time=0.002008, Opts=
Banner: 421 Cannot connect to SMTP server 66.111.4.52 (66.111.4.52:25), connect error 10060
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:26', Opts=
Success: 'mail.messagingengine.com:26', time=0.099, Opts=
Banner: 220 mail.messagingengine.com ESMTP . No UCE permitted.
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:587', Opts=
Success: 'mail.messagingengine.com:587', time=0.097356, Opts=
Banner: 220 mail.messagingengine.com ESMTP . No UCE permitted.
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:110', Opts=
Success: 'mail.messagingengine.com:110', time=0.001866, Opts=
Banner: +OK POP3 ready
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:143', Opts=
Success: 'mail.messagingengine.com:143', time=0.001886, Opts=
Banner: * OK IMAP4 ready
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:465', Opts=SSL => 1
Failed: 'mail.messagingengine.com:465', time=20.932, IO::Socket::SSL: connect: Unknown error
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:995', Opts=SSL => 1
Success: 'mail.messagingengine.com:995', time=2.172495, Opts=SSL => 1
Banner: +OK POP3 ready
Test 'mail.messagingengine.com:993', Opts=SSL => 1
Failed: 'mail.messagingengine.com:993', time=20.903066, IO::Socket::SSL: connect: Unknown error
Test 'dav.messagingengine.com:80', Opts=DAV => 1
Failed: 'dav.messagingengine.com:80', time=21.013, IO::Socket::INET: connect: Unknown error
Test 'dav.messagingengine.com:443', Opts=SSL => 1, DAV => 1
Failed: 'dav.messagingengine.com:443', time=21.001856, IO::Socket::SSL: connect: Unknown error
Test 'ftp.messagingengine.com:21', Opts=
Success: 'ftp.messagingengine.com:21', time=1.394, Opts=
Banner: 220 heartbeat2 FTP server (Net::FTPServer/1.122-1 ME::VFS::Interface::FTP/18634) ready.
Test 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:21', Opts=
Success: 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:21', time=1.396218, Opts=
Banner: * OK IMAP4 ready
Test 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:25', Opts=
Success: 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:25', time=0.00283, Opts=
Banner: * OK IMAP4 ready
Test 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:26', Opts=
Success: 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:26', time=0.095217, Opts=
Banner: * OK IMAP4 ready
Test 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:80', Opts=
Failed: 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:80', time=20.999204, IO::Socket::INET: connect: Unknown error
Test 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:443', Opts=
Success: 'imap.proxy.messagingengine.com:443', time=0.096982, Opts=
Banner: * OK IMAP4 ready
Test 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:21', Opts=
Success: 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:21', time=1.194824, Opts=
Banner: 220 mail.messagingengine.com ESMTP . No UCE permitted.
Test 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:25', Opts=
Success: 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:25', time=0.002095, Opts=
Banner: 421 Cannot connect to SMTP server 66.111.4.41 (66.111.4.41:25), connect error 10060
Test 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:26', Opts=
Success: 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:26', time=0.097, Opts=
Banner: 220 mail.messagingengine.com ESMTP . No UCE permitted.
Test 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:80', Opts=
Success: 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:80', time=0.098301, Opts=
Banner: 220 mail.messagingengine.com ESMTP . No UCE permitted.
Test 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:443', Opts=
Failed: 'smtp.proxy.messagingengine.com:443', time=20.991333, IO::Socket::INET: connect: Unknown error
*** WinINET Connection tests ***
Retrieve
http://www.fastmail.fm/ via WinINET
Headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.61
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:00:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: IDStr_=ae89cf4539a8d3ad490d%211253480422; path=/; domain=www.fastmail.fm
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 1981 01:00:00 GMT
X-UA-Compatible: IE=8
Retrieved from
http://www.fastmail.fm/, code=200, bytes=12850, time=0.471179
Retrieve
https://www.fastmail.fm/ via WinINET
Headers:
Retrieved from
https://www.fastmail.fm/, code=0, bytes=0, time=60.013
Retrieve
http://mail.messagingengine.com/?UDm=49 via WinINET
Headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.61
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:01:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: IDStr_=4a8d15dccb549e7ab2d6%211253480482; path=/; domain=mail.messagingengine.com
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 1981 01:00:00 GMT
X-UA-Compatible: IE=8
Retrieved from
http://mail.messagingengine.com/?UDm=49, code=200, bytes=12850, time=0.445444
Retrieve
https://mail.messagingengine.com/?UDm=49 via WinINET
Headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.61
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:02:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: IDStr_=3b56df7b6738226f8abf%211253480520; path=/; domain=mail.messagingengine.com
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 1981 01:00:00 GMT
X-UA-Compatible: IE=8
Retrieved from
https://mail.messagingengine.com/?UDm=49, code=200, bytes=12763, time=37.607013