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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:43:06 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
To:        <noackjr@compgeek.com>, "'Brad Knowles'" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc:        <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: why?
Message-ID:  <a05111b04b97c6d3ef724@[10.0.1.60]>
In-Reply-To: <000001c2416c$3c672020$0a01a8c0@COMPGEEK>
References:  <000001c2416c$3c672020$0a01a8c0@COMPGEEK>

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At 2:21 PM -0500 2002/08/11, Jon Noack wrote:

>  thanks for the info -- yeah, although i realize now that i was being
>  ambiguous, i meant why does the smtp server take so long to send
>  messages from the one account (and sometimes doesn't seem to send them
>  at all -- no longer in the queue but never arrive at destination) while
>  the other goes immediately.  the delay is definitely at the smtp server,
>  but i haven't quite figured out why it takes 6+ minutes to process a
>  message that is queued while i sent other messages that were immediately
>  processed as soon as they hit the queue.

	It's hard to say.  It could take a while to look up information 
in the DNS, or one nameserver you use may be heavily loaded and 
respond very slowly, there are any number of reasons why something 
could easily be delayed just five or six minutes.  If things were 
delayed multiple hours, I might be a bit more concerned.

	Remember -- e-mail is store-and-forward, and it may easily take 
many hours for the message to arrive.  Don't depend on things being 
delivered instantaneously, because that almost certainly won't happen 
every time.

>                                            oh well, looks like i should
>  setup a freebsd box for smtp instead of using the windows box from
>  work...

	A FreeBSD box may or may not help in this regard.  I think that 
FreeBSD would be a much better choice for a lot of reasons, but if 
the Windows box is properly configured and very lightly loaded, it 
may be difficult to configure a FreeBSD machine to be that much 
faster.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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