Delayed messages

[JoeHill]

James Knott wrote: 

> John McGregor wrote:
> > James Knott wrote:  
> >> One thing I've noticed in the recent discussions is that some messages
> >> are significantly delayed.  In one example, a message I had sent last
> >> night arrived this morning, over 12 hours later.  Here's a few of the
> >> header lines:
> >>  
> >> <snip>  
> >>
> >> I have only noticed this behaviour with the TLUG list and it doesn't
> >> happen with all messages.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?  
> > I've noticed a general slowdown of email over the last week as well.
> > It may be just coincidence, but Rogers has been rolling out a new
> > antivirus solution to its Windows customers since the beginning of
> > April and certainly our mail would have to traverse those servers.
> >  
> 
> Wouldn't that AV software be installed on the user's computer and not
> the servers?

Not necessarily. When I was with Sympatico they put in a predictably bad system
for filtering viruses and such at the server level. It very badly fuxored my
e-mail because it added all kinds of non-compliant headers that Spamassassin
really hated.

> Also, wouldn't that affect all email, and not just TLUG?

In my case, it was only certain lists that were affected: those that used
Spamassassin to filter mail. A few lists started dropping my mails, especially
those on Sourceforge. 
 
> As the headers I included showed, it was about 12 hours from when that
> other server to when Rogers received it.  So, the delay is apparently
> outside of Rogers.

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J
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