E-mail

Ardua · Mar 10, 2009, 18:36:21

Has e-mail gone South again?

Rik · Mar 10, 2009, 18:38:03

There seems to be about 30 minutes delay.

Ardua · Mar 10, 2009, 18:45:56

It is more than a delay Rik: I am getting time outs on all my 3 e-mail accounts. Everything was fine about 30 minutes ago.

Glenn · Mar 10, 2009, 18:49:31

None of my accounts are timing out, but an email I set to an external account 10 minutes ago has yet to arrive.

Rik · Mar 10, 2009, 18:51:07

No timeouts here either.

Ardua · Mar 10, 2009, 19:07:36

My timeout issue seems to have resolved itself - however, test messages that I sent out to all 3 of my e-mail accounts have yet to bounce back.

Rik · Mar 10, 2009, 19:11:19

As I say, I'm seeing 30 minute delays, have been all afternoon, I did let support know.

Glenn · Mar 10, 2009, 19:39:02

My test mail took 50 minutes to arrive.

Lance · Mar 10, 2009, 22:54:14

I'm wondering if there is going to be more server resource required if this becomes a more regular occurence.

Ann · Mar 11, 2009, 10:36:41

It makes me laugh when email goes down.. *everybody* sends test mails to themselves and clogs the system up even more

Simon · Mar 11, 2009, 10:39:13

I guess it's a natural reaction, a bit like when we press the buttons harder on the TV remote, when the batteries are running out.

Rik · Mar 11, 2009, 10:39:54

I didn't, I promise.

Apparently, there was a shed load of spam hitting the servers from ~18:30-20:00 yesterday.

Ray · Mar 11, 2009, 11:16:21

Quote from: Rik on Mar 11, 2009, 10:39:54
I didn't, I promise.

Apparently, there was a shed load of spam hitting the servers from ~18:30-20:00 yesterday.

Yes, Rik, I've noticed an increase in the amount of spam I've been receiving over the last 10 days or so, I was only seeing about one a week prior to that.

Rik · Mar 11, 2009, 11:18:00

It seems to be an ever-growing problem, Ray. Relatively few get through, but it makes you wonder how much email traffic is clogging up the 'net now.

Glenn · Mar 11, 2009, 11:34:31

I only see 1 or 2 a week, and no I don't want yours Ray or anyone else

Sebby · Mar 11, 2009, 13:36:08

Quote from: Rik on Mar 11, 2009, 11:18:00
It seems to be an ever-growing problem, Ray. Relatively few get through, but it makes you wonder how much email traffic is clogging up the 'net now.

I guess the same could be said of the postal network, although not to the same extent as junk email, I wouldn't have thought.

Rik · Mar 11, 2009, 14:27:12

Plus, they get paid to deliver it.

g7pkf · Mar 11, 2009, 16:15:11

And i use it to light the fire

rgt247 · Mar 12, 2009, 14:03:45

More Delays now about 42 Min....

The below is the header from this forum to one of gmail accounts.

Results
Source     Destination     Hop Delay     Total Delay
web132_idnetters@localhost)   hosting2.idnet.net   0 secs   0 secs
hosting2.idnet.net
127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   3 secs   3 secs
localhost.localdomain
212.69.36.28 Spam Check   smtp-out.idnet.com   -36 secs*   -33 secs *
smtp-out.idnet.com
127.0.0.1   localhost   42 mins 18 secs   41 mins 45 secs
localhost
127.0.0.1   smtp-out.idnet.com   0 secs   41 mins 45 secs
smtp-out.idnet.com
212.69.36.238 Spam Check   mx.google.com   0 secs   41 mins 45 secs

If you copy the headers info to this web site you can clearly show where the delay is.

http://www.levinecentral.com/mail_parse/default.aspx

This might help Idnet solve these email problems ? Or is it another Spam attack ??

Sebby · Mar 12, 2009, 14:21:31

It's probably worth letting them know, Rich.

rgt247 · Mar 12, 2009, 14:30:29

Just checked another just now and that was fine. Only 3 seconds !

Before I had two emails both with similar delays of about 42 mins

Just glad its working now.........

Rik · Mar 12, 2009, 14:35:12

42 minutes is what I was logging when I called support around 1.