On Sun 02 Mar 2014 at 09:54:01 +0000, Tom Furie wrote: > If you look at the headers on your posts (or anyone else's for that > matter), you can track the progress from origin to destination. In this > instance the messages were received by the Debian mail system almost > immediately you sent them, they then came back out (in my case) fifteen > minutes later. Other people may have received their copies earlier or > later depending on several factors. > > Email is not a real-time communication system, sometimes there are > delays, or even failures, at any step along the route.
The interesting questions involve what is happening on bendel after a mail is accepted. 1. Why is any mail delayed for 15 minutes before onward transmission? 2. Why do some users and not others experience this 15 minute delay? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/02032014121841.6b616e3aa...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
