[Discuss] OT - Mail Server Speeds

[Franco Castro]

I had a mail server for a long time. Most likely you are getting gray
listed in some way. My recommendation is to check their postmaster webpage
to register your ips to be added to their white lists.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:21 PM Alex Pennace <alex at pennace.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:04:57PM -0400, epp at mcom.com wrote:
> > Is it possible for a service provider to slow down the response times
> > from their servers?
>
> It is possible for a service provider to deliberately add additional
> response latency (wait a little bit before sending a response). But it
> is far more likely that increases in latency are simply due to
> underprovisioning the systems involved.
>
> > When connecting to either Yahoo's or AOL's IMAP servers, the response
> > time has been extremely slow as of late. SMTP has been fine.
> >
> > Yahoo now has oversight of the AOL Mail service and they may be located
> > in California now.
> >
> > In comparison, speeds to and from other providers' servers, have been
> > fine.
>
> Verizon acquired AOL in 2015, and Yahoo's assets[1] in 2017, wrapping
> up both in a subsidiary named Oath. I'm sure someone can come up with
> a giant list of things Verizon is doing wrong. For my part, I was
> actually a happy user of AOL IM and Yahoo Groups until they shut those
> down (true, Yahoo Groups still distributes email, but the archives are
> gone and I doubt one can newly subscribe to any existing group).
>
> Verizon management has demonstrated an indifference to users of legacy
> services. It is reasonable to presume that this indifference is
> afflicting these IMAP services. They may be underprovisioned,
> undersupported, and not terribly important to The Powers That Be.
>
> What does the future hold? Will Verizon/Oath maintain Yahoo or AOL
> mail indefinitely? Will they force users to migrate from one domain to
> the other, or to a third domain? Service providers deprecate services
> all the time, but Verizon has demonstrated a willingness to be
> exceptionally disruptive in the process. Now is the time to consider
> your exit strategy should Verizon discontinue a service you depend on
> -- particularly if it is a service that is costly to migrate (such as
> telling everyone of a new email address).
>
> [1] As in, Verizon acquired almost everything about Yahoo, including
> the name, but the old Yahoo corporation lived on. This entity named
> itself Altaba (remember, it sold the Yahoo name), sold its remaining
> assets, distributed a giant dividend in 2019, and is in the process of
> wrapping up its dissolution and declaring a final dividend. So will
> end a chapter of Internet history.
>
> --
> Alex Pennace, alex at pennace.org
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