[Tigers] List delay question

[Mark J Bradakis]

On 10/22/18 2:15 AM, steve wick via Tigers wrote:
>
> I don't often post to the list, mainly because there seems to be a 
> delay between when I send a response and when my response hits my 
> mailbox. Recently I posted a response to a question and it was about a 
> day and a half later that my response appeared in my inbox. By then 6 
> other people had responded with essentially the same answer and the 
> discussion had moved on. Am I the only one experiencing this?
>

Yes, there is a delay in mail processing in the server.  Usually on the 
order of 2 - 3 hours, maybe 4.  I would LOVE to know why it happens.  I 
have looked into it before, and have been meaning to delve into the 
problem more deeply.  I don't know if it is a software issue with 
Postfix or Mailman, or if it is a hardware issue with a bad hard drive 
that takes a bazillion retries to write  a file.


With the archiving problem mostly sorted, perhaps I will up the priority 
of investigating the delays.  A day and a half is a pretty excessive 
delay, more than I have experienced.  The machine on which I read Team 
Net email is on the same wire as the server, a few feet apart. I've 
never seen more than a few hours delay.


I'll look into it some more.


mjb.