Excessive email delays

[yorkshireman]

Cheers, will see what a sendmail log and spf are. It is a dynamic IP but aren't many these days? Not enough numbers to go around.

I posted a query on the host's support and was told it was due to high traffic, which may be when another site's mail is spammed. It does seem worse on Friday Night/Saturday morning Working fine now, just a few seconds delay.

PS Why when I am doing lots of test purchases does somebody always decide to do a real one and confuse the issue? The Great God Sod invariably increases sales.

You will definitely be being deferred/blocked by some domains because you are on the DUL list then MAPS - Support - Detailed End User Information for MAPS DUL Listings

Are you really sure you need to run your own server? Scripts like phpmailer will quite happily send via googlemail. If you move your domain to Google Apps the mail will still originate from your preferred email address. I would never run my own mail server now unless the application volumes (and the client) insisted.

[xoggoth]

Cheers again. Looked at sendmail log and it seems I can only get that on a dedicated server. I may need to switch to more up to date hosting for some features, on a "legacy" machine at mo after Supanames got taken over. For the moment I have just dumped the contents into a mysql table and set up a page I can cut n paste from if necessary.

[yorkshireman]

Cheers again. Looked at sendmail log and it seems I can only get that on a dedicated server. I may need to switch to more up to date hosting for some features, on a "legacy" machine at mo after Supanames got taken over. For the moment I have just dumped the contents into a mysql table and set up a page I can cut n paste from if necessary.

If it is a shared email server then you will be suffering for the sins of all Supanames other clients.

I would definitely look into sending via Google Apps using phpmailer. You will get 100% delivery if you send via Google. No mail admin dares block their IP addresses!

PM me if you have any specific questions.