This program will automatically detect when any user appears to be the victim of a mail bomb. The program defines a mail bomb as occurring when any client receives 50 email messages from the same sender within a one hour time frame. These messages can be different, it does not matter. If and when this occurs, System Administrators at colchis.net are notified via email immediately and any further incoming emails sent to the victim from the sender are automatically intercepted and not delivered. The sender will not be able to further email the client for 5 hours.
Many different factors play into the overall time in transit for email.
Email sent to yourself through your colchis.net account will be delivered and ready immediately because the email is delivered locally on our network rather than a different network across the Internet. The biggest cause for delay in mail delivery is when a certain SMTP server is not reachable. If the SMTP server is unreachable, it will try again for anywhere from the next 4 hours to 5 days. We assure our clients that once you have sent your outgoing mail through your SMTP server, it is automatically sent out for delivery. Beyond this point, there is nothing we can do to speed up the delivery time for email.