Mail is designed to be robust, so that messages that cannot be delivered immediately are spooled, for up to days at a time. Its part of the expected behaviour.
In this case we don't know why the mail was delayed between a U/C server and a server in singapore. It may be congestion on either machine, a breakdown in the internet connectivity of either machine [1], or any number of problems. It happens a lot on everyones servers these days. The real culprit is spam. And while we can all usually filter spam at some point in the chain, none of us can do much about the volume emanating from elsewhere in the world. [1] I have to say that at about the same time as Don had this particular email go slow, i had troubles with a singapore tourism website that i was exploring for holiday purposes, just a coincidence? Maybe? Maybe not? On Wed, April 4, 2007 11:16 am, Chris wrote: > While it may be mere fine tuning, i do find it odd when people except > servers > spending an hour or so moving what should be done in less than a second.. > > Granted, shit happens, but when it happens enough to be identified, then > surely it is a problem that needs attention? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:48, Andrew Errington wrote: > > There have been other people reporting delayed and unusually > out-of-order > > message delivery from this list (I've seen it myself, but it doesn't > > bother me enough to do anything about it). > > Me too. > > Generally I find email communication to be instant (or startlingly fast), > but I don't mind (or care) if I get messages out of order due to a delay > somewhere. > > A > > > -- Nick Rout
