On Sun 02 Mar 2014 at 15:12:01 +0000, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 12:24:26PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > The interesting questions involve what is happening on bendel after a > > mail is accepted. > > > > 1. Why is any mail delayed for 15 minutes before onward transmission? > > Could be any of many reasons. System load, SMTP transmission failure, > routing problems... the list goes on.
The mentioned delay interval has been in place for at least two years so the second two reasons appear very unlikely as a cause. Load balancing is possibilty. > > 2. Why do some users and not others experience this 15 minute delay? > > I haven't done any analysis, but I'd expect most if not all of us > experience delays from time to time. For the case in question, it's not These type of delays tend to be random and variable in time. > all of Ralf's messages that are being delayed, only those in the systemd > thread. In fact, it looks as if *all* messages in that thread were > delayed by roughly the same amount of time. My guess is extra processing > for particularly suspicious looking messages. It is all messages. I have no guesses why; none of the messages look particularly suspicious to me but the software knows best. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/03032014154724.af8ea7842...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
