Clearly, many have an interest in having the IETF mailservers operate
properly and competently.
-- Why were only these messages were held up in the mail spool?
-- What sort of failure caused these messages to be held up while other
messages of mine (and others) were not held up?
-- Were there any other messages similarly affected? (there doesn't seem
to be)
As I noted directly to John Klensin:
-On Saturday, 13 March, 2004 18:10 -0500 Dean Anderson
<dean(_at_)av8(_dot_)com> wrote:
Yes. Some are coming through. I sent a total four messages
(three unique, one was sent twice) to the list yesterday, and
two got through.
The message
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg24650.html
was sent twice on Friday, and once on Saturday. Only the one
sent Saturday got through. I sent other messages interleaved
with the apparently unsuccessful messages, and those other
messages were successful.
Mar 12 17:43:34 i2CMhXMU023157 not on list archive
Mar 12 18:03:05 i2CN34iB023522 successful
Mar 12 19:27:42 i2D0Rgpj025065 not on list archive
Mar 12 19:45:12 i2D0jBuC025473 successful
Mar 13 17:03:16 i2DM3Ea4016371 successful (same as two not
archived) Mar 13 17:10:07 i2DMA7KY016553 successful
All show that the IETF mail server accepted the messages.
Seems quite strange....
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
A little more patience might actually be a Good Thing.
I have 3 copies of your mail now, the two first-sent ones have the
following relevant trace entries:
Received: from majordomo by asgard.ietf.org with local (Exim 4.14)
id 1B2LNj-000618-Jl
for ietf-list(_at_)asgard(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004
21:29:39 -0500
Received: from ietf.org ([10.27.2.28])
by asgard.ietf.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14)
id 1B1vPe-0006HQ-PP
for ietf(_at_)asgard(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:45:54
-0500
Received: from majordomo by asgard.ietf.org with local (Exim 4.14)
id 1B2LSY-0006CS-JN
for ietf-list(_at_)asgard(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004
21:34:38 -0500
Received: from ietf.org ([10.27.2.28])
by asgard.ietf.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14)
id 1B1x2I-0005If-9B
for ietf(_at_)asgard(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:29:54
-0500
Now, mail sitting for 24 hours in an internal queue does not make me happy.
But it IS the weekend.
Harald