You'd be suprised. When my company sends out newsletters, etc, the bounces alone are pretty taxing on the mail server. Yesterday alone I was seeing delays of 1, 2 hours -- last week a huge mailing delayed the mail gateways up to 4 hours. It also depends on what your relays are doing, too. If they're spamchecking and virus scanning, the backlog can get big, fast, when your mail server is suddenly hit with 4, 5, 6 times its normal volume. Most people dont plan for influxes like that because, well, they generally don't happen unless something is really wrong. On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:13:56AM -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:

...a backlog of mail should be able to be processed more quickly than that I would think...though I don't really know the severity of the situation, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

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