[geeks] WHATS WRONG WITH YOU

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:36:11PM -0800, Christopher Byrne wrote:
> Bill,
> In response to the original "what's wrong with you" post, I've noticed
> something strange.
> Now I know email can sometimes take a circuitous route from me to the list
> and back, but over the last week or so I've noticed something really weird.
> Sometimes I'll send a post in and it will head out to the list within a few
> minutes, sometimes it's taking hours (in one case a day and a half) to get
> to the list. ANd we are talking about emails sent within a few minutes of
> each other. None of my other email destinations are seeing this behavior,
> and send out at least 50 emails a day.
> Anyway just something strange I noticed
> Chris Byrne

I addressed this a couple days ago - this isnt the only list on the machine,
and outgoing mail (e.g., the stuff you get back) has to fight for the queue
with other lists on here - Sunhelp-list has around 800 people, the sunmanagers
list has over 3K, etc.. so "return time" also depends on the load of the
other lists and the traffic they're seeing.

Sun-managers list, for example, gets around 30-50 messages/day.  Mutiply
that by 3000 subscribers (50 x 3000) - thats 150,000 outgoing mails per 
day - JUST for that list....  I'd say this box does at least 200,000
outgoing emails a day, total.  (wow...)

Like I said, I'm upgrading to Postfix soon, and will be able to prioritize
some of the delivery.  Stuff is making it *to* the lists instantly, its just
taking a bit to get back out.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX