[Reply] Hi all,
We are using the Mailman mail server, and the result you see is primarily due to the vagaries of Internet connectivity, not the mailserver itself. When a message comes in to the server, it is despatched to all email addresses registered on the List. However if it meets with a difficulty connecting with your mail server, then that message gets queued to be dealt with 'x' minutes later. If a subsequent message to the list gets sent ( the reply to the first one), and the link to your mail server is now working, then the second message will be delivered first. Unavailibility of a mail server can be due to many reasons - the link itself, the mail server being overloaded ... whatever, there can be many causes. Can you not order your email messages by the date time stamp, to get them put in proper order? Or is that date time received?? regards Gary List Admin ( on holiday in a Taihape Internet Cafe having a coffee and internet fix !! ) | To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | CC : | From: Like Magic, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Content Type: text/plain | Attached: | | Hi, | Is it my machine or a mail server somewhere causing the mail from the list | to arrive in a completely random order. Some messages can be up to 12 hours | late, I see answers before the question. It makes the list very hard to | follow. | | Maurice | | _______________________________________________ | Offtopic mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic | ======================================================== Gary Benner - e-Engineer and Software Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 123 Internet Ltd Lecturer in Information Technology - Waiariki Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
