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Re: Long delay between email post and authentication request
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Date: 
Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:05:33 GMT
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Gereon "Jerry" Stein wrote:

If you still experience unwanted behavior, please do not hesitate to
post it here - I am monitoring this group, so I can react to new
issues fairly quickly.

I have *no* problems with getting the initial "Message awaiting
authentication" mail, it has (almost) always arrived within a minute. The
problem is that if I auth by replying to the email, it will take an enormous
amount of time before the post actually shows up (if ever?). No such
problems if I click the link in the mail and auth on the web page.

I have made three posts to lugnet.off-topic.test, and sent one reply to the
auth mail:

Post: 2007-08-23 17:41    "Testing email auth."
Mail: 2007-08-23 17:41    "Re: Message awaiting authentication"
Post: 2007-08-23 18:12    "Testing email auth. - doing web auth."
Post: 2007-08-23 18:14    "Re: Testing email auth. - doing web auth."

The first one where I replied to the auth email is still not visible, the
others which were confirmed on the web showed up almost immediately.

--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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@all, I have dug into the issue a bit more, and having spent the last 2 hours or so working through the mail queues, I have found that the mail gateway for LUGNET news is currently being drowned in spam to invalid addresses. The active queue is now (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) @all, I have identified a substantial increase of Spam to the mail-gateway, which basically resulted in an "overfull" queue of deferred bounces (the mail gateway does send a response to the original sender if for any reasons it cannot accept a (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.admin.general)

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