Hi Dave,
At 23:58 24-10-2011, Dave CROCKER wrote:
Currently, nothing in the message (or smtp responses, of course)
signals this reason for delay. (For those who haven't seen the
thread, the person initiating the the thread thought the delay was
due to DKIM processing...
A message was sent to a mailing list. Most of the mailing lists
hosted by that organization send a message to the sender to notify
the person that the message is being held for moderation. The
mailing list doesn't do that. There was an attempt to debug trace
headers generally internally on the receiver's side to determine the problem.
It would be quite simple to add a Received header field, when a
message is placed into a moderation queue, noting that fact.
That would help people debug trace headers generated
internally. That works if you have an idea of how the infrastructure
is set up. The mailing list software used does not inject a Received
line. If it did, it could have added a comment about the message
being "held". BTW, that does not really help the sender as the
person still has to wait for the message to get through to the list
to know that the ended up in the moderation queue.
Regards,
-sm