[Discuss] OT - Mail Server Speeds

[epp at mcom.com]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:54:01 -0400
Alex Pennace <alex at pennace.org> wrote:

> It is a distinct possibility that the issues you are experiencing are
> cyclic, and if you tried again later you may have better results. But
> the notion of "too many users active at once" implies that things
> would be just fine if it weren't for those other users who want to
> check their email during the day. I would instead argue that the real
> question to answer is "did Verizon/Oath provision their email service
> to handle a reasonable peak load?"
> 
> Email hosting can be very scalable (of course, poorly designed
> implementations may have bad scaling issues). If it is scalable, then
> it is a a straightforward matter of provisioning it with more
> resources. If the implementation isn't scalable, then modifying it to
> be so is possible (albeit more difficult). It is fair to say that if
> the problems you are encountering are due to resource limitations,
> then it will be possible for Verizon to correct the situation. Verizon
> *wanting* to spend the time and money to address the issue is another
> matter, of course.

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

Don't know...