Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:55:19 -0500 From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@compgeek.com> To: "'Brad Knowles'" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: why? Message-ID: <000101c24171$0544cca0$0a01a8c0@COMPGEEK> In-Reply-To: <a05111b04b97c6d3ef724@[10.0.1.60]>
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I guess the reason it piqued my curiosity is that I only have delays
with the one account (really, the only difference is what email address
is listed as the 'from' and 'reply' -- everything else is the same).
This has been happening for the last few days and I find it an odd
coincidence. A type=MX nameserver lookup responds instantly with the
correct info, although it may very well be that the SMTP server is
getting a timeout on DNS. I'll check the logs when I get a chance (I'm
the Unix admin, not the Windows one thank God). Speaking of which, any
good alternatives to Exchange (calendar and meeting stuff required)?
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad.knowles@skynet.be]
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 2:43 PM
To: noackjr@compgeek.com; 'Brad Knowles'
Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: why?
At 2:21 PM -0500 2002/08/11, Jon Noack wrote:
> thanks for the info -- yeah, although i realize now that i was being
> ambiguous, i meant why does the smtp server take so long to send
> messages from the one account (and sometimes doesn't seem to send them
> at all -- no longer in the queue but never arrive at destination)
> while the other goes immediately. the delay is definitely at the
> smtp server, but i haven't quite figured out why it takes 6+ minutes
> to process a message that is queued while i sent other messages that
> were immediately processed as soon as they hit the queue.
It's hard to say. It could take a while to look up information
in the DNS, or one nameserver you use may be heavily loaded and
respond very slowly, there are any number of reasons why something
could easily be delayed just five or six minutes. If things were
delayed multiple hours, I might be a bit more concerned.
Remember -- e-mail is store-and-forward, and it may easily take
many hours for the message to arrive. Don't depend on things being
delivered instantaneously, because that almost certainly won't happen
every time.
> oh well, looks like i
> should setup a freebsd box for smtp instead of using the windows box
> from work...
A FreeBSD box may or may not help in this regard. I think that
FreeBSD would be a much better choice for a lot of reasons, but if
the Windows box is properly configured and very lightly loaded, it
may be difficult to configure a FreeBSD machine to be that much
faster.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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