Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:24:27 -0700 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Michael P. Sale" <mike@merchantsnet.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P.S. Message-ID: <19980621192427.63054@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01bd9b2a$5be4e0a0$3d06bccc@708644668>; from Michael P. Sale on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 07:31:26PM -0700 References: <01bd9b2a$5be4e0a0$3d06bccc@708644668>
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On Thu, 18 June 1998 at 19:31:26 -0700, Michael P. Sale wrote: > What's up with this list. It seems to be taking a minimum of about an hour > for me to see my messages posted. I don't remember it being this slow > before. All FreeBSD mail goes via hub.FreeBSD.org. At any one time, between 50 and 200 messages are in the course of delivery. If one important machine, such as a relay, goes down, these delivery agents will spend longer trying to deliver before giving up. Under these circumstances, messages can take up to 12 hours to deliver. That's not a bug: mail isn't supposed to be an immediate medium. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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