A small security firm in Iowa says it has discovered why Yahoo's email is sometimes slow. An analysis of Yahoo Inc. mail servers found that they were only able to accept email about half the time on average, making it likely that email was taking longer than normal to deliver, the security firm said Friday.
In testing 16 Yahoo mail servers, Dymeta Inc., based in Bettendorf, Iowa, found on average that the servers were unable to accept email 45 percent of the time, and the number of available servers ranged from as low as four to as high as 12, Aaron Gillette, chief technician for the company, said.
"We're not saying that mail isn't going to get through, but it's likely to take longer than normal," Gillette said. "Normally, when you send email from one account to another, you can expect it to be delivered in minutes. With the problems they've got, it could take hours or even days to get through, or it could be bounced back entirely."
