From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 22 19:42:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07559 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:42:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (papillon.lemis.com [192.109.197.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07537 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA00622; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980621192427.63054@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:24:27 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: "Michael P. Sale" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P.S. References: <01bd9b2a$5be4e0a0$3d06bccc@708644668> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <01bd9b2a$5be4e0a0$3d06bccc@708644668>; from Michael P. Sale on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 07:31:26PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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