I'm reporting extremely slow IMAP synchronization which started early this evening 11/10/2014  NY time and has persisted. Using Outlook 2007. This seems to happen more and more frequently and I'm becoming discouraged. I moved to Zoho from Homestead and was quite happy for a long time, but the last few months have seen more frequent severe load conditions, outages, authentication problems, etc. There is never an issue with the web UI, at least not for me, but I use Zoho almost exclusively for IMAP, and it is just getting worse and worse.

Tracing route to imap.zoho.com [74.201.154.17]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     6 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]

  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.

  3    15 ms    19 ms    37 ms  ool-4353df71.dyn.optonline.net

67.83.223.113]

  4    10 ms     8 ms     7 ms  167.206.32.124

  5     8 ms     8 ms     8 ms  451be069.cst.lightpath.net [65.19.107.105]

  6     9 ms    10 ms     8 ms  451be0e6.cst.lightpath.net [65.19.120.230]

  7     *       15 ms     *     te3-4.ccr01.ewr02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.11.77]

  8    66 ms    60 ms    66 ms  be2325.ccr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.47.29]

  9   106 ms   112 ms   116 ms  be2115.ccr42.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.190]

 10   158 ms   156 ms   150 ms  be2114.ccr41.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.202]

 11   246 ms   196 ms   235 ms  be2133.ccr22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.65]

 12   351 ms   374 ms   386 ms  be2165.ccr22.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.28.66]

 13   459 ms   436 ms   444 ms  te0-0-1-0.agr13.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44.130]

 14   388 ms   304 ms   255 ms  te0-0-2-0.nr11.b023785-1.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.24.15.178]

 15   108 ms   106 ms   120 ms  38.104.134.70

 16   231 ms   241 ms   264 ms  border1.pc1-bbnet1.sje005.pnap.net [66.151.144.13]

 17   330 ms   354 ms   348 ms  74.201.154.17