I see this on some of our list. Especially when there are
yahoo or hotmail users on the list of e-mails. On a busy night
it sometimes takes a while getting mail to hotmail. The actual
spool file will not finish until the last message is delivered.
An example of this is a family mailing list that I have. Only a few
names in the list. However one family member is on some goofy
e-mail service that is not always accepting mail for some odd
reason. (Probably runs on a dial up connection :>) List
messages may take as much as three hours to finish in those
cases.
Look just before the 'finished' line and see when the last message
was delivered to a list member. Now look back in the log file and
see how many attempts were made to deliver to that address.
Like I am sure anyone sending mail to me this morning saw it
take 'a while'. For the first time in three years I had total silence
in my server room.
Dusty
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael M. Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Imail Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:48 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] delays
>
> Sorry about the html before. Hope this is fixed this time
>
> Here is the mail delay I found in the log. Any suggestions as to why it
> takes so long?
>
>
> 10:12 07:26 SMTP-(0000015C) processing C:\IMAIL\spool\Q1af22ec.SMD
> 10:12 10:08 SMTP-(0000005A) finished C:\IMAIL\spool\Q1af22ec.SMP status=3
>
> 2 hrs 42 mins!!!
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