From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Mailing list subscription's mail delivery delays?
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 3:48 PM Matthias van de Meent <
> boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if the issue is on my side (mail servers are gmail's) or
>> on the mailing list server - all traces I've checked indicate that the
>> delay is somewhere in the delivery from postgres' last mail server to
>> the first gmail mail server.
>> 
>> I've only really noticed this sometime in the past few weeks. After
>> sampling my mails, I found other examples of significant delays (>1h)
>> for mails from well-respected hackers dating back to at least
>> 2023-08-28.

> I have noticed the same thing happening for the Gmail account that I use.

I have been seeing the same thing for a few days now, on my
definitely-not-gmail personal server.  Something's flaky in the
PG mail infrastructure.  It's gotten better since yesterday's
outage, though I'm not convinced it's totally fixed.

			regards, tom lane