From: dara tomar (wish2ie@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 13:32:15 ARST
*Thanks a lot Paul,
This was really a bad problem,Good you pinpointed the whereabout of the
issue.
Thanks a lot this will make the things efficient.
Thanks,
Regards,
Dara*
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Paul Borghese <pborghese@groupstudy.com>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>
>
> Ok, I think I fixed the slow delivery time. The way the list server
> works,
> a message arrives into GroupStudy and gets forwarded to a distribution
> server. This particular server is in Texas. When the e-mail arrives in
> Texas it is automatically queued. The Queue is processed in five minute
> intervals by a daemon who forwards it to one of 400 sendmail processes for
> delivery.
>
>
>
> For whatever reason, the daemon was leaving the messages in the queue 24+
> hours before forwarding to sendmail. I rebooted, turned the daemon
> off/on,
> nothing worked. I eventually cleared out the queue and things are now
> working better.
>
>
>
> So please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
>
>
>
> In October I purchased a new server to upgrade the Texas server, and this
> will give me more incentive to get the new server installed. In the next
> day or so, you will see GroupStudy go down for a few hours. You will also
> see interruptions to the mailing list function as I upgrade the list
> server/software. But afterward we will have a much more stable and robust
> system.
>
>
>
> Take care,
>
>
>
> Paul Borghese
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