[ale] Anyone know why comcast.net emails are severely delayed today?

[Bob Toxen]

I would guess that they were overloaded by CyberMonday traffic on top
of first of the month traffic.  Find a better mail host that isn't
Gmail.

-Bob

On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 05:23:56PM -0500, Jeff Lightner via Ale wrote:
> This morning an email sent to me around 7:52AM arrived at that time.   

> Later at 9:12AM I was waiting for an OTP email and it didn't seem to
> arrive nor did a resend I requested.    Around 20 minutes after each
> was sent they arrived.   Unfortunately the OTP expired 15 minutes after
> being sent so were expired by the time I received them.

> As the day has gone longer I'm seeing longer and longer lags between
> send times and the times they were actually received.   That delay is
> now more than an hour.

> I know the issue is at Comcast because:
> 1)  The email app I use on my laptop is Outlook and it shows the delay.
> 2)  The email app I use on my android phone is also Outlook and it
>     also shows the delay.
> 3) Logging into Comcast's Webmail shows the delay (so no Outlook involved).
> 4) Test emails I sent to myself from a non-comcast email to two of my
>    comcast email addresses (including this one) were delayed.
> 5) Emails to my non-comcast email address do not have the delay.

> It all reminds me of an issue seen on our mail servers where there
> were delays of what our company was sending to customers.   It turned
> out the mail queue had gotten hosed because we were being blocked (either
> by a blacklist site and once by AT&T due to a policy change they made).
> The queue got larger and larger as the failed emails were reattempted
> so even the non-blocked email couldn't get its turn in the queue.

> Nothing on Comcast's site indicates they know there is an issue.
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