[plug] Email delivery WAS: Wanted: dirt cheap wireless LAN

[Daniel Pearson]

iiNet's servers have always been notoriously slow..

----- Original Message -----
From: "bob" <bob at fots.org.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: [plug] Email delivery WAS: Wanted: dirt cheap wireless LAN


> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:40 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:17 pm, bob wrote:
> > > Seem to have missed that post, wonder where it got to?
> >
> > Popped up here in its place between Leon Blackwell and Russell.
>
> Nope, still haven't seen it :(.
>
> Ok, this is probably only the paranoia talking but does anyone know what
the
> topology of iinet is like wrt port 25? Is there something carnivore like
> lurking in the bushes?
>
> I say this because I have multiple instances of emails taking _hours_ to
> traverse iinet (both ends use iinet as ISP, both ends run smtpd's) or
> occasionally disappearing entirely. Headers show the mail leaving remote
> site as expected and should then virtually instantly arrive at my gateway
> but _something_ happens inbetween that is not being shown because large
> globs of time go by before anything arrives :(.
>
> I would suspect that I'd borked something up but it seems to mostly effect
> iinet and no one else.
>
> Oh well... the laser kits from Altronics look a good solution :).
>
> > Cheers; Leon
>
> --
> ASCII a stupid question, you get an EBCDIC answer.
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