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From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] mailing list issues
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:43:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F85E8565-B17B-4A51-9271-5130B6D0E614@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15d99d40-eda7-4253-a439-4aedade77700@sirjofri.de>

On June 8, 2021 3:41:59 PM EDT, sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de> wrote:
>
>08.06.2021 20:11:28 Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>:
>
>> messages arrive out of order. messages arrive late. messages don't 
>> arrive at all.
>>
>> I see a lot of stuff like:
>>
>> 1ess Jun  8 14:10:41 delivery '/net.alt/dns' does not exist ([known 
>> good hostname])
>
>I know this error very well as I noticed it some time ago. I don't know 
>exactly what causes it, afaik /net.alt is asked when /net/dns isn't 
>available (which is never the case on my machine). So I assume the error 
>message is misleading.
>
>The messages are then stored in /mail/queue for the next time, which 
>might be the cause for the wrong order of messages.
>
>In my experience this happens a lot and under uncertain circumstances. 
>Even if both servers are 9front/upas and dns records are set up properly 
>the error can happen.
>
>Most of the time I was personally able to ignore them, sending messages 
>again if they aren't sent. But that's only on my private server.
>
>sirjofri
>

pretty much yes, this exactly. because we have a large number of subscribers (over 700), things get quite jumbled up.

sl

      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-09  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-08 18:11 Stanley Lieber
2021-06-08 19:07 ` Julien Blanchard
2021-06-08 20:31   ` Stanley Lieber
2021-06-08 23:00     ` Toby
2021-06-08 19:41 ` sirjofri
2021-06-09  0:43   ` Stanley Lieber [this message]

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