On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:37:53AM -0400, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > Moderately Off Topic: > > Does anyone else have trouble getting their messages on the list in a timely > fashion? It seems when I reply to the list it takes 15 to 45 minutes for my > message to appear. By the time my reply shows up, 3 other people have > replied and I look like a dufus for posting redundant info. Anyone else have > this problem or just sf.net just not like me?
As always with email troubleshooting, the first rule is Get The Headers If you look at a post of yours when it comes back from the list, you'll see a bunch of "Received:" headers at the top. You may have to fiddle with your email client to make these visible, or even save the post to a file and view it with a text editor. These headers are arranged youngest-first, that is, youngest at the top, older headers lower. Each header will have a timestamp in it, usually containing an offset from GMT so you can compare the times. These times are the received times at the various hosts the email has traversed on its way from you to the list server and back. By correcting times for GMT offset then taking the differences, you can make quite a good guess as to where the email was delayed. Armed with such a guess you're in a much better position to post to the list with "Help, your darn list server is taking and _awful_ long time to handle posts". Or maybe not. Your plea might well be to a local sysadmin with "How come my incoming mail is taking so long to handle", sparing the list the question. If it is the list, bear in mind that the SA list could well be huge. And, it's far from the only list on the host that carries it. Depending on how much bandwidth it is allowed to take up and how much processor, and considering that it is being supported not by my direct funding nor most likely by yours, I for one am not apt to complain about it even if my posts take hours to get back to me! I'd politely urge a similar attitude on others. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 ICQ UIN 216717075 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
