Re: email is fast!

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- --On Tuesday, February 06, 2007 17:13:53 -0500 Kevin Hunter
<hunteke(at)earlham(dot)edu> wrote:

> On 02 Feb 2007 at 9:21a +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:46:25AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> I have noticed the past month that email is very fast. I hit send and
>>> the mailing list reply just appears in my mailbox!
>>
>> You are a lucky man then ;-)
>>
>> Well, yeah, it's much better, and quite often it is that fast. And then
>> suddenly something happens and you have a 4-6 hour delay on a couple of
>> mails, while others go through. But the speed-when-things-are-working is
>> good, yes :-P
>
> Being a fairly new lurker to the Postgresql lists, what is the reason for the
> speed delay? I, too, have a 3-5 hour delay, but I thought it was something
> to do with my end and greylisting. Now I'm not sure . . . :/

Just to follow up this one ... Kevin sent me an email including the full
headers for one that took 12 hours to be delivered ... using the QUEUE ID, I
checked the logs and it turns out that the mail server couldn't resolve the MX
the first and second time it tried to deliver, but succeeded on the third ...

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