Slow linuxchix.org mail? (Re: [Techtalk] mailserver problems on mandrake10)

[Mary]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> hi listadmin,
> this mail took nearly 24 hours to reach my inbox. I noticed some other 
> ppl aare facing the same problem - i think something is broken

LinuxChix is testing a greylisting policy (rejecting mails with a
temporary error the first time that there's an attempt to send linuxchix
mail from a particular address and then accepting them later -- it's an
anti-spam measure). If a mail server has a relatively slow retry time
then there might well be a considerable delivery delay. You'll observe
that all the delay was between the sending server and the linuxchix.org
host:

Received: from sharp.noc24x7.com (unknown [69.56.128.138])
        by www.linuxchix.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A966A273024
        for <techtalk at linuxchix.org>; Sat,  5 Mar 2005 06:25:05 +1100 (EST)
Received: from [61.3.110.136] (helo=thenilgiris.web)
        by sharp.noc24x7.com with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1D74Sl-0001cW-PD
        for techtalk at linuxchix.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:00:56 +0530

Also, occasionally these kinds of delays happen: if linuxchix.org was
momentarily unreachable at the time that sharp.noc24x7.com first tried
to send the mail through, for example.

-Mary