From: "Geo" 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> The slow mail server was not overloaded after all.  The IT guy applied a
> hotfix to the copy of Windows the mail server was running, and the
> server is responsive once again.

That sounds like a bug from a couple years ago, wonder what triggered it now?

> Oh, in reply to your comment above -- lots of AV software place
> themselves between the email client and the server,

Yeah, but when you disable in/outbound mail checking they disable it,
Norton does not, well it does disable checking but it still proxies.

Geo.

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