Re: Email processing question

[Chris <chris@thelambchops.net>]

Tim,

I've heard from many companies today that their spam filters are being
overwhelmed and their mail servers are being crushed by spam.  Are you
referring to personal email or a work location?

I'm wondering if there's an out of control bot network out there.

Chris

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:41 -0600, Tim McDonough wrote:
> I've noticed it takes longer to send an email lately than it used to 
> take. I have accounts on several systems with different SMTP servers 
> and I notice the delay whether I'm using a Linux system or Windows.
> 
> Used to be from the time I clicked "send" until the message was on 
> it's way was a second or so. Now it happens slowly enough that a range 
> of connecting, sending, completed messages routinely appear. Most mail 
> is in the 3-8 second range, on one server it can be as much as 30 seconds.
> 
> Is all this do to safe guards against spam and virii or do all my 
> computers just have problems?
> 
> Tim
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