POP Goes the Email Server

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In terms of importance, email ranks right up there with the Internet in the eyes of employees. That being the case, when it's not working, you are going to hear about it.

In this scenario, all of the users on your network are complaining that their email is taking an extremely long time to reach its destination. While this is sometimes the case with email sent to other domains, even email they send to fellow employees within the same organization is taking forever. Let's get to the bottom of this.

What We Know

All email in our company is managed through one mail server. After doing some research, we confirm that this problem exists for all of the email clients in our network. Whereas a typical intra-office ...

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