( Mail checked & replied to, BTW. )
I can't help but think there was a co-relation to that, the timeout errors here I saw yesterday, and the spam deluge our private email experienced at the same time.
We keep 2 email boxes- one is dummy that is never used, and a subbox that is used as little as possible- the dummy saw not one spam, the other box was filling up faster that I could block or filter it.
I finally got mad enough to back-trace the headers and deluge the ISP's with "your server is one in a chain sending this junk to me- stop it!" emails...
I got back one "we don't know nuffin' about it," one "we are investigating," and one "that account has been banned for spamming" emails, but it stopped shortly afterwards, at around lunchtime.
Glad it stopped for you.
Our email spam comes and goes.
I am thankful though that mine is usually
100 or less these days and often it's under
25 spam msgs daily.
My husband's is more.
There was a time it used to be about 500 +/-.
That was no fun.