bendsley

I would be willing to bet that it's more bad luck than anything. As many people as there are at each service, it seems more of a bad business decision to start blocking whole domain names from sending mail.

I really haven't seen any problems yet with Google's outgoing mail queue, but then again, they have a lot less users. (personally, i also think it's because they're running linux instead of some exchange mockup.)

With Hotmail, you are put into a queueing group to send mail. Once your group is filled up, you are moved to a load balanced machine and scheduled for delivery. This can happen almost instantly or can take up to 10 minutes or so. Just depends on where you are in the group. The closer you are to the lowest number in the group, the longer you will have to wait until the group reaches it's limit. Sometime, mail does get lost.

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