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List:       qmail
Subject:    Re: Mail hanging around.
From:       Charles Cazabon <qmail () discworld ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2004-09-30 17:43:23
Message-ID: 20040930174323.GC32765 () discworld ! dyndns ! org
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Harrell, Roger <rjharrel@bechtel.com> wrote:
> Recently I've had a few mails seemingly stuck in the queue (outgoing). These
> mails eventually get through, but take days. I saw the recent thread on slow
> mail to Yahoo.com, but couldn't tell if I was experiencing something
> similar. In this case it's to earthlink.net. Here's a sample header. It's
> the 19th Sep received by qmail, then jump to 21 Sep where it finally hits
> earthlink's SMTP server. Only select emails are being affected.

That's possible.  It's also possible that only select connections are
affected.

> I could send one, have it get stuck, 5 minutes later send another and it
> goes straight through. Is this an Earthlink problem

Yes.

> or is there anything I might be able to do about it?

You can't fix the problem.  If you want to address the symptom, you could use
serialmail to deliver all Earthlink mail over a single connection, which might
get your messages through more reliably.

Charles
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