From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 11 12:55:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F43437B411 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:55:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patriarch.dnsalias.org (adsl-65-69-3-83.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [65.69.3.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388D843E72 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noackjr@compgeek.com) Received: from COMPGEEK ([127.0.0.1]) by patriarch.dnsalias.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.2600.1); Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:55:23 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Jon Noack" To: "'Brad Knowles'" Cc: Subject: RE: why? Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:55:19 -0500 Message-ID: <000101c24171$0544cca0$0a01a8c0@COMPGEEK> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Aug 2002 19:55:23.0515 (UTC) FILETIME=[07A4DCB0:01C24171] Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* tv+z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message