Re: Anyone know why comcast.net emails are severely delayed today?
Bob Toxen via Ale <[email protected]>
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I would guess that they were overloaded by CyberMonday traffic on top of first of the month traffic. Find a better mail host that isn't Gmail. -Bob On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 05:23:56PM -0500, Jeff Lightner via Ale wrote: > This morning an email sent to me around 7:52AM arrived at that time. > Later at 9:12AM I was waiting for an OTP email and it didn't seem to > arrive nor did a resend I requested. Around 20 minutes after each > was sent they arrived. Unfortunately the OTP expired 15 minutes after > being sent so were expired by the time I received them. > As the day has gone longer I'm seeing longer and longer lags between > send times and the times they were actually received. That delay is > now more than an hour. > I know the issue is at Comcast because: > 1) The email app I use on my laptop is Outlook and it shows the delay. > 2) The email app I use on my android phone is also Outlook and it > also shows the delay. > 3) Logging into Comcast's Webmail shows the delay (so no Outlook involved). > 4) Test emails I sent to myself from a non-comcast email to two of my > comcast email addresses (including this one) were delayed. > 5) Emails to my non-comcast email address do not have the delay. > It all reminds me of an issue seen on our mail servers where there > were delays of what our company was sending to customers. It turned > out the mail queue had gotten hosed because we were being blocked (either > by a blacklist site and once by AT&T due to a policy change they made). > The queue got larger and larger as the failed emails were reattempted > so even the non-blocked email couldn't get its turn in the queue. > Nothing on Comcast's site indicates they know there is an issue. > _______________________________________________ > Ale mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list [email protected] https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo