Emails update too slow

LinuxLala · 08-27-2004, 01:13 PM

Hi

For a few days now I haven't been getting any email updates on threads that I am subscribed to. Seeing my inbox empty for the umpteenth time I went to the user control panel and checked out on my subscribed threads and many had been replied to.

So I naturally posted in them and then I got the update of a message that had been posted there many hours ago(before I replied again). Plus there are threads of which I get updates 2-3 days later. In most of the threads it now takes up to 4 hours before I get an update.

Is any one else also having a similar problem?

david_ross · 08-27-2004, 01:32 PM

I had this a while ago but I think it was just my own mail provider. Everything is ok for me just now.

LinuxLala · 08-27-2004, 01:34 PM

I am still troubled mate, I just got an update to a thread. The reply which the update maiil quotes was made on the 25th.

jeremy · 08-27-2004, 03:44 PM

We aren't having a problem that I see on this end. Is any of your non-LQ related mail being delayed?

--jeremy

darin3200 · 08-27-2004, 07:42 PM

LinuxLala: Does your ISP have something like SpamAssassin set up to screen email? My email takes quite a long time to arrive, not 3 days, because of my ISP overworked mail servers trying to bounce back spam and scan the mail, and when the filter is disables it isn't quiet as slow.

LinuxLala · 08-28-2004, 03:12 AM

No other mail is being delayed. Accept for one which I got about hours after it was sent

And no, I don't have any spam assasin or any such stuff and this problem has just creeped up, It was not so before.

david_ross · 08-28-2004, 11:43 AM

LinuxLala, take a look at the message headers for one of the delayed e-mails. "View->message Source" in Mozilla or Thunderbird. At the top you will see a list of the servers that the mail has passed through. You can then compare the dates beside them and see where the biggest time gap is.

LinuxLala · 08-28-2004, 12:45 PM

IT seems to be working fine now. I got the update to this thread pretty quickly

david_ross: I use a yahoo email account, so I clicked on Full Headers.

Code:

X-Apparently-To:	 linuxlala@yahoo.co.in via 202.43.219.167; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:14:47 +0530

X-Originating-IP:	[64.179.4.146]

Return-Path:	<forum@linuxquestions.org>

Received:	from 64.179.4.146 (EHLO linus.linuxquestions.org) (64.179.4.146) by mta103.mail.in.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:14:47 +0530

Received:	from web1.linuxquestions.org (web1.linuxquestions.org [64.179.4.149]) by linus.linuxquestions.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7SGhjag031214 for 
<linuxlala@yahoo.co.in>; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:43:45 -0400

Received:	  from web1.linuxquestions.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by web1.linuxquestions.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7SGhi3C009945 for <linuxlala@yahoo.co.in>; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:43:44 -0400

Received:	(from nobody@localhost) by web1.linuxquestions.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7SGhigP009943; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:43:44 -0400

Date:	         Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:43:44 -0400

Message-Id:	<200408281643.i7SGhigP009943@web1.linuxquestions.org>

To:	          linuxlala@yahoo.co.in

Subject:	Reply to post 'Emails update too slow'

From:   	"LinuxQuestions.org Mailer" <forum@linuxquestions.org>

What does this tell you mate.

jeremy · 08-28-2004, 01:20 PM

Looks like yahoo was deferring mail for a bit:

Code:

stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mx2.mail.in.yahoo.com.

--jeremy

david_ross · 08-28-2004, 01:22 PM

That tells us that things are working fine. Like I said before you will need to look at the headers from one of the delayed e-mails to see where the slowdowns are occuring.

LinuxLala · 08-28-2004, 01:24 PM

Thanks guys. I will see if there are any more delays, it seems to be fine now.

Thanks.