Long email delays - on two different ISPs

is it the the IIS/IE exploit?

[tedster]

I'm having a wrestling match with two different ISPs. Both are large (100,000's of clients). One is pricey and one is bargain basement.

In both cases, email sent to accounts on their mail servers is subject to delays of hours or days, and some mail is getting lost. It all started about 5 or 6 days ago.

Both tech support departments are blaming it on a flood of junk email generated by recent worm/virus attacks. However, I also work with several other accounts and nothing this extreme seems to be happening for any of them.

Is anyone running into this besides me? Is the recent IE/IIS exploit wreaking this much havoc?

[Krapulator]

I believe the general opinion now on the recent IE/IIS exploit is that the exploited servers were manually hacked, not automatically infected by a worm/script/virus so I can't see them being responsible.

[isitreal]

If an email takes longer than 15 seconds to get to my inbox I consider that a serious problem. Of course I also only host my sites on Unix servers, so maybe I'm spoiled, that might have something to do with it. Are the email servers on Windows or *nix?

I've used the same hoster now for a while, and their email systems got only slightly bogged down in the biggest outbreaks, and there isn't a big outbreak this month from what I've read.

<fix>Oh, I missed that, it's ISP email, that explains it. Horrible, would never use it, all the big ones have big problems routinely.