Jim Ziobro writes: > Indeed email is not a synchronous messaging channel. But most > email clients will sort incoming messages by header Date thus undo > the effects of out-of-order delivery.
That's mostly true. However, traditionally the first retry was set for 4 hours after the initial send. If Dreamhost has such a long retry delay, that could cause hours of out-of-order and certainly cut someone out of a hot and heavy discussion. The problem is that the first message from a particular sender will be rejected temporarily and retried after 4 hours, but everything from that sender sent after 15 minutes (typical greylisting delay) will go through the list. Of course anybody the sender CC'd will get it immediately, and may reply. It can be a mess. Steve Footnotes: [1] For those who don't know the term: this is an antiabuse device where the recipient rejects the message with a temporary failure, then sets a timer for a few minutes, say 15. If the message is received again after that, it is accepted. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
