Evan's mailserver

[Trev]

Since 17:59 yesterday 16 September, the mailserver for anobium.co.uk has been declining mail as noted below:

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mx0.123-reg.co.uk.:
<<< 421 smtp01.mailcore.me: Too much load; please try again later
... while talking to mx1.123-reg.co.uk.:
<<< 421 smtp10.mailcore.me: Too much load; please try again later
<evan@XXXXXXXX.co.uk>... Deferred: 421 smtp10.mailcore.me: Too much load; please try again later
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 1 week old

[Anobium]

Yes.   The ISP mail hub is down. And, I am not receiving email.

[Anobium]

Oh dear

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Some customers may still experience significant delays in receiving messages (including those from the Email Forwarding service), please rest assured that the messages are not lost but just delayed due to a higher load on one of the servers, we are monitoring the situation closely but due to the high number of queued messages we can’t provide an ETA yet for when all will be delivered.

[Chris Roper]

That sounds like they are under attack but don't want to admit it.
Only a Bot could generate enought email to over load an ISP Mail server, especialy as they should have several for redundancy.

[Trev]

Unless they run all their mailservers on the same machine, the speak with forked tongue as my mailserver has tried smtp01 through smtp13.mailcore.me and received the same "Too much load, try again later" response each time.

[Trev]

Some customers may still experience..."

Code for everyone?

My mailserver logs show this outage lasted almost 24 hours! Email was finally delivered 17:23 September 17 (TZ UTC+10) - 15 minutes ago.

[Anobium]

Cheers for all the sympathy. :-)