[Gllug] strangely delayed message

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:37:09AM +0100, Mark Lowes wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 11:26, Sean Burlington wrote:
> > Received: from unknown (HELO relay2.ftech.net) (212.32.16.71)
> >    by ns.inthespotlight.org with SMTP; 17 Jul 2002 10:13:09 -0000
> > Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ibm1.ftech.net)
> > 	by relay2.ftech.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22-ftech-p6.1 #6)
> > 	id 17UlZp-0001bl-00; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:58:33 +0100
> 
> I'm not that worried about a 15 minute delay on the list server (the box
> in question shifts over 96% of all email within 60 seconds).  The
> message in question got accepted by exim and queued for some reason (not
> imediately apparent why) and got caught the next time a queue runner hit
> it, 15 minutes later.  

This could happen if you have any load-related throttles set on
deliveries, in which case messages are left on the queue until the next
queue runner process.  If this means a lot of messages backed up in the
queue then the backlog may take a while to clear.

-- 
Bruce


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