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Re: Why do I not receive some confirmation e-mails?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:07:07 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jamie Obrien wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Mark Bellis wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Joel Hoornbeek wrote:
> > > I'm hoping someone on the admin team can help me. I have been trying all
> > > morning to post a message to .space, but I have not yet received the
> > > confirmation e-mail. I posted a test message to .off-topic.test, and
> > > received the e-mail almost instantly. What's going on?
> > > I've been posting via the web interface, although I'm attempting to send
> > > this one via nntp.
> > >
> > > -Joel
> >
> > I'm having the same trouble - at least an hour between posting and receiving the
> > confirmation email. It's a big nuisance when you're trying to keep up with a
> > discussion!
> >
> > The confirmation emails (when they finally arrive) have the correct time of
> > posting, so is it anything to do with clock synchronisation due to daylight
> > saving time, or possibly a slow US to Europe gateway?
> >
> > Mark
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> Hi, just to check, this could sound more like an ISP issue. Alot of ISP's are
> doing massive amount of scanning and filtering of Email, thus delaying the
> delivery of the email. Can you post your email headers, (mangel the IP's and
> other details). Some ISPs also use 3rd party affiliates to scan the email, thus
> further delaying the email. Under certain cirumstances, the email can even get
> lost. (Though the email still exists on the ISP mailserver, without any
> confirmation regarding the state of the email, the email is effectively lost).
> During virus outbreaks, even with whitelist addresses, my ISP can be delayed for
> up to 6 hours :-O
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> Look for a headers like:
> X-Spam-Checker-Version:
> X-Oringinal-Arrival-Time:
> anything which indicates some actions performed by your ISP.
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> Count yourself lucky, with the web posting, i barely receive 1 in 10
> confirmations, and i can catch the email before it gets to my isp :(
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> I don't think the delay issue is anything more than congestion at one end or the
> other, the non delivery of confirmation emails is different issue altogether.
>
> jamie :(
> (^O^) ~~ Morning Musume - Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari ~~
>
> X-OrigtinalPostTime: 01:17 GMT
Looking at the headers, there's no indication of extra actions.
I notice that Lugnet's clock is 3 seconds slower than my ISP's clock!
The thing is, there hasn't always been a time delay - it seems to come in waves.
I used to get the emails within 5 minutes, or even as soon as the next web page
came up after posting.
The delay time appears to be random, not linked to either message length or time
of day.
I probably won't pick up the email for this message till tomorrow, since it's
now after 10pm here.
Mark
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