Clearly, many have an interest in having the IETF mailservers operate properly and competently. -- Why were only these messages were held up in the mail spool? -- What sort of failure caused these messages to be held up while other messages of mine (and others) were not held up? -- Were there any other messages similarly affected? (there doesn't seem to be) As I noted directly to John Klensin: -On Saturday, 13 March, 2004 18:10 -0500 Dean Anderson <dean@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes. Some are coming through. I sent a total four messages > (three unique, one was sent twice) to the list yesterday, and > two got through. > > The message > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg24650.html > was sent twice on Friday, and once on Saturday. Only the one > sent Saturday got through. I sent other messages interleaved > with the apparently unsuccessful messages, and those other > messages were successful. > > > Mar 12 17:43:34 i2CMhXMU023157 not on list archive > Mar 12 18:03:05 i2CN34iB023522 successful > Mar 12 19:27:42 i2D0Rgpj025065 not on list archive > Mar 12 19:45:12 i2D0jBuC025473 successful > Mar 13 17:03:16 i2DM3Ea4016371 successful (same as two not > archived) Mar 13 17:10:07 i2DMA7KY016553 successful > > All show that the IETF mail server accepted the messages. > Seems quite strange.... On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > A little more patience might actually be a Good Thing. > I have 3 copies of your mail now, the two first-sent ones have the > following relevant trace entries: > > Received: from majordomo by asgard.ietf.org with local (Exim 4.14) > id 1B2LNj-000618-Jl > for ietf-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:29:39 -0500 > Received: from ietf.org ([10.27.2.28]) > by asgard.ietf.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14) > id 1B1vPe-0006HQ-PP > for ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:45:54 -0500 > > Received: from majordomo by asgard.ietf.org with local (Exim 4.14) > id 1B2LSY-0006CS-JN > for ietf-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:34:38 -0500 > Received: from ietf.org ([10.27.2.28]) > by asgard.ietf.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14) > id 1B1x2I-0005If-9B > for ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:29:54 -0500 > > Now, mail sitting for 24 hours in an internal queue does not make me happy. > But it IS the weekend. > > Harald > > >