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outlook and exchange are aweful

Today I was sitting in a meeting, and one of the participants asked if I had a particular document. I didn't, and no-one had an USB key handy, so they emailed it to me.

The size of the content was 120Kb. It took 4 hours and 30 minutes to go from the local exchange server, to the Adelaide exchange server (the home of my mailbox), and back again to me here in Chicago. The network itself is quick.

Any of sendmail, exim, postfix, or qmail would have had the delivery done in a couple of minutes. Exchange's latency is just insane.

| 25 Feb 2005 | #

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