On 3/8/24 12:20 PM, j...@janalexander.ca wrote:
For years our digest has arrived at 9:00 am (PST).
In the last six months it has been erratic, arriving at different times during
the day.
Now, recently it is not arriving for a day, sometimes days. It's pretty useless
to our members to have messages from one or two days ago arrive late.
Examine the full raw text of the received digest. Look at the chain of
Received: headers (they are in chronological order with most recent at
the top) to determine where the delay(s) occur. I suspect the message
will have been received from Mailman by the outgoing MTA. in a timely
manner and the delay is later in the delivery chain, but if not,
Mailman's outgoing queue is hopelessly backlogged. If this is the case,
it should affect not only digests but also individual messages. See
https://wiki.list.org/x/17892002 for tips on what the hosting service
can do about this.
On the other hand, if the delays are later in the delivery chain,
there's nothing Mailman can do about it.
I've asked the Mailman hosting company about this repeatedly. Their answer is
that bigger volume mailist senders on shared servers take time in the queue,
and our little mailist has to wait until their messages are processed. They've
asked them to move to a dedicated server, but the delays are still occurring.
I've asked them about setting up a Cron job to schedule the release of our
emails, but haven't received a definitive answer.
If the messages are in Mailman's out queue, that's a situation that can
be addressed by the host (tips in the wiki article above). If the
messages have been delivered by Mailman to the outgoing MTA and are
queued there it's likely because of greylisting or some other issue
between the outgoing MTA and the next hop. These can be diagnosed via
the MTA's logs. Otherwise the delays may be further downstream. It's a
true shame that EMWD is not able to provide the support that they did
when Brian was still alive.
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San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan
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