[sane-devel] sane-devel delivery slow?

[Mark Plowman]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:21:45 +0100, Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard at gjaeger.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > On Thursday 23 January 2003 11:22, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is everyone noticing a delay in sane-devel email arriving or is
> > > it just me?  Mails send to the list arrive at mostang.com pretty
> > > quick > > >(seconds to minutes) and show up in the archive.  But
> > > they take up to 15 hours to reach me.  E.g. I can see three
> > > answers to "stupid question about SCSI" in the archive but none
> > > has arrived here until now.
> > >
> > > For me, the delay occurs somewhere between mostang.com accepting
> > > the mails and sending them to the recipients.  That could also
> > > be a problem with my provider but Abel D. told me about similar
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > Anyone else?
> 
> in the meantime yes!  Any explanations?

Remotely diagnosing mail problems is a little tricky, but...

Inspecting the mail headers for a typical posting, everything is find
on the way *to* the list, Mailman gets it and passes it back to
panda's postfix for re-distribution, and *then* it encounters a
massive delay.

Now postfix is well know to be *good* at mailing-list work, so
something must be a bit wonky with the configuration.  Running
"pflogsumm.pl" on the mail log files might reveal the problems, or,
alternatively, simply inspecting the logs.

Postfix does need good, reliable DNS services to work efficiently.
Has panda got a local (caching) name server?


Greetings

Mark Plowman (also postfix administrator!)

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