[Discuss] OT - Mail Server Speeds

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

epp at mcom.com wrote: 
> 
> I'm noticing the slow speeds all the time: morning, afternoon, evening.
> I just pinged the IMAP server and the times looked fine:
> 
> 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 29.040/31.235/34.016/1.839 ms

Ping responses are handled by the kernel at such a low level
that I've had machines respond to ping that were otherwise
completely locked up. It's not a good diagnostic for load
levels.

On the other hand, the timing of an IMAP login is probably a
good early diagnostic measure. Script up an expect script
around 

openssl s_client -connect imap.verizon.com:993 

-dsr-