Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1D99FB256 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40342-07 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048C69FA4CD for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96632118D1DF for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21574-02; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-79-174.eastlink.ca [24.137.79.174]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB815118B40A; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864B14A912; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:20 -0400 (AST) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:16:20 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Kevin Hunter , Magnus Hagander cc: PostgreSQL www Subject: Re: email is fast! Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <45C8FDA1.7050903@earlham.edu> References: <200702020546.l125kPN11116@momjian.us> <20070202082145.GC20955@svr2.hagander.net> <45C8FDA1.7050903@earlham.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.7 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200702/140 X-Sequence-Number: 11545 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, February 06, 2007 17:13:53 -0500 Kevin Hunter wrote: > On 02 Feb 2007 at 9:21a +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:46:25AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> I have noticed the past month that email is very fast. I hit send and >>> the mailing list reply just appears in my mailbox! >> >> You are a lucky man then ;-) >> >> Well, yeah, it's much better, and quite often it is that fast. And then >> suddenly something happens and you have a 4-6 hour delay on a couple of >> mails, while others go through. But the speed-when-things-are-working is >> good, yes :-P > > Being a fairly new lurker to the Postgresql lists, what is the reason for the > speed delay? I, too, have a 3-5 hour delay, but I thought it was something > to do with my end and greylisting. Now I'm not sure . . . :/ Just to follow up this one ... Kevin sent me an email including the full headers for one that took 12 hours to be delivered ... using the QUEUE ID, I checked the logs and it turns out that the mail server couldn't resolve the MX the first and second time it tried to deliver, but succeeded on the third ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFyk+04QvfyHIvDvMRAuIrAJ9GgCpg3VcAXuIAVnUaMYUSoIkizQCgzOZl xj9Xf2c3ydoWnI6s/jIQH1I= =5rvW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----