On 2022-02-01 2:50 pm, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
Lately I've found myself a couple times duplicating answers
already provided on this list by others up to almost three
hours earlier because I had not received these replies yet.
Now the little delay for posts to get in inboxes is a quirk
inherent to mailing lists, but three hours seems a bit much.
I'm wondering: are others experiencing this as well?
Yes. Though it is inconsistent.
Check the timestamps in the email headers. This tends to be what I see:
- Original sender's mail goes from their server to the eggs.gnu.org (the
spam filter, IIUC).
- eggs.gnu.org processes the mail and hands it off to lists.gnu.org.
- The email goes from "localhost" (?) to lists.gnu.org. [This is where
the delay usually happens.]
- My mail server gets the email from lists.gnu.org.
-- Aaron Hill
