Hi, regrettably i cannot contribute anything to your actual question.
But the question of mail delays can be answered out of my mailbox: charlie derr wrote: > my initial attempt to post the below to the > list well over half an hour ago from my other address (CCed) hasn't yet made > it to the list, though i don't know why, Your message from Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:07:03 +0000 arrived after 23.5 minutes at my (and your) mail provider's server: Received: from bendel.debian.org ([82.195.75.100]) by mx-ha.gmx.net (mxgmx014 [212.227.15.9]) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 1MeAxp-1mNWTv0lWB-00bJHD for <scdbac...@gmx.net>; Wed, 08 Dec 2021 13:30:24 +0100 The delay seems to be a cooperation of Debian's server ecosystem and linode.com. At Debian: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with QMQP id D50422036B; Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:30:13 +0000 (UTC) is more than 15 minutes after Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D083E20220 for <lists-debian-u...@bendel.debian.org>; Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bendel.debian.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lists.debian.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 2525) with ESMTP id m_NL4LxlSScX for <lists-debian-u...@bendel.debian.org>; Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:14:43 +0000 (UTC) Before that, the mail spent a while on linode.com : Received: from localhost.members.linode.com (emergencyguild.org [IPv6:2600:3c04::f03c:92ff:fe58:ffe3]) ... by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 494FB20094 for <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:14:43 +0000 (UTC) is more than 7 minutes after Received: by localhost.members.linode.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07A0979742; Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Have a nice day :) Thomas