That sounds very much like what's going on here. I've reciently added a few
more DNS servers to the lookup table to try and help this and have increased
the timeout values as well. I'm trying to avoid those drops.
> This may not be the place to troubleshoot this, but... What I notice
> happening (this happened last friday when I thought the lists were down)
> is that if my mail server gets somewhat busy, then I won't get mail for
> several hours from the hof server, then all of a sudden, I'll get maybe
> twenty to fifty messages, anywhere from two to five hours old. In the
> meantime, lots of other mail gets through just fine.
>
> What I think might be happening is that your mail server has difficulty
> connecting with other servers and either it or the other mail server gives
> up the connection prematurely. This could be a problem that compounds
> itself, since it may try all those servers over and over again without
> ever delivering any mail.
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: wtf? list problems?
>
>
> >There's two sides to the story here. The list seems to be going really
> slow
> >to some people (including me) but not others. The server has about 80
> >threads open and running. This means that there is a LOT of mail going
> out.
> >As a small note on that, I have my cf-talk delivered to an address
> outside
> >of the houseoffusion.com domain so I can monitor such things.
> >
> >
> >> Problems with the cf-talk list again? I posted something hours ago and
> >> haven't seen it yet. I'm also not receiving as many emails today.
>
>
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