Jan 042011
As mentioned in the comments here, a lot of emails I’m sending out are either not getting to the destination… or are being delayed by more than a *day.* This is of course not a good way for an internet business to run. Anyone have any ideas what might cause this, and who I might yell at to make it stop?
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Is it everyone or just a few people? There’s an “anti-spam” feature in use on a few systems that forces new MTAs to retry for many hours. Spambots typically only attempt to send once, but legit MTAs are supposed to be configured to retry for at least 24 hours.
If that’s the case, then it’s on the receiving end and you can’t do much about it.
> Is it everyone or just a few people?
Hard to tell. Oddly, it seems that when I get emails asking “Where’s my stuff” and I respond to *that,* *that* email seems to go through pretty quick. It may have been a phenomenon that only lasted a day or two, since it appears that the emails that went astray seem to have been mostly/all sent on Jan 2. But I can’t be certain of that just yet.
I just spoke with Earthlink tech support. They pointed out that if I hit “send” on a message and it shows up in my webmails “sent” folder, then the email has been, in fact, sent. And that if I’ve sent you an email and you didn’t get it… it’s *your* fault. Specifically, your internet service provider is being slow and annoying, and you should contact them.
Whether that’s entirely true or not I don’t know, but that would seem to be about as far as I can go with it, since all these sent emails show up in the “sent” folders pretty quick.
Hate to be Capt. Obvious here, but check your Spam folder if you’re expecting mail and it hasn’t arrived. Yahoo periodically burps and puts 50-60% of my legitimate mail into the spam folder, and I have to manually de-spamify that mail. It’s happened to me with APR mail on more than one occasion.