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Date:  Tue, 08 May 2007 17:48:15 +0300
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:09782] Re: Email problems
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <0JHQ006OA991YMB0 (at mark) mxout5.netvision.net.il>
In-Reply-To:  <5fa041b20705080709l197b4a17y955cc54f06f78436 (at mark) mail.gmail.com>
X-Mail-Count: 09782

> Hi,
> 
> 1. I have about 20 email accounts I check several times a day from
> different websites. Those are just POP accounts (I use my ISP's SMTP
> server to send email). Several times a day I am prompted by Outlook
> 2003 to enter my password. I just click OK without changing anything
> and then it all works fine. I am 101% confident there is nothing wrong
> with the passwords. But it is annoying to be asked several times a
> day. I also have a few clients who complain about this. Perhaps the
> mailserver is affected by the server load (altough I only get messages
> that the server is heavily used occasionally). Most of the time it's
> OK (right now the 1 Minute Load Average is 0.23 and the 15 Minute Load
> Average is 0.11).
> 
> 2. I have the impression some email fails altough it seems to be just
> spam. I get emails in the admin account with subject: Postmaster
> notify: see transcript for details. They are spam mails sent to an
> existing email addres such as info (at mark) vsite.tld but still they seem to
> fail. They bounce back to the spammer's email address which is most of
> the time fake so they end up as failed messages in my admin mailbox. I
> ask myself if this is OK or if this is a result of really something
> being wrong with the mail server?
> 
> Brgds,
> Reginald


Are you sure you don't have any routing/networking issues?



Best,

--
Arthur