Email relay issues

[mwalpole]

We are currently experiencing a large spike in email traffic on one of our email servers. This is causing any email hitting this server to be delayed by up to three hours. The delayed emails are not lost, they are just in a queue waiting to be processed

[Ric_]

Have you checked your logs to see where they are coming from? It sounds like a spam issue and you should probably just drop mails from the troublesome hosts. Enabling SenderID checking may also help but a lot of spammers actually go to the effort of spoofing this now too.

[mwalpole]

Hi Ric,

 

Overnight, our email servers dealt with the backlog of emails and the service is now running correctly again.

 

Kind regards

 

Marc