From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 11 19:54:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF07D37B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vienna9.his.com (vienna9.his.com [216.200.68.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1941A43E65 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.60] (root@[127.0.0.1]) by vienna9.his.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g7BJhPO05977; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:43:26 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <000001c2416c$3c672020$0a01a8c0@COMPGEEK> References: <000001c2416c$3c672020$0a01a8c0@COMPGEEK> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:43:06 +0200 To: , "'Brad Knowles'" From: Brad Knowles Subject: RE: why? Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message