Mark Nipper wrote:
> I'd say that is a total of at least fifty thousand e-mail
> addresses if not substantially more for service addresses and
> departmental stuff. We've had a few problems here and there, but
> on the whole it's been rather painless.
My experiences have been less positive. I like to get my email quickly.
Some remote hosts (large organizations) have their initial retry times
set up to 6 hours.
_My_ users are used to transfer times of seconds. A typical 10-30 minute
delay in either direction means loss of time and thus money.
User: XXX from YYY just called and asked if I got his mail.
I didn't. Can you check where it is?
Me: It got stuck in our greylisting. You'll have to wait until
their server retries. Dunno when that will be. But the next
email will go faster!
User: ??? WHAT?
I prefer to live without that kind of conversation. But I know that
email admins in academia are nearly untoucheable. That is another matter
in real business.
/tom
