Date:         Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:10:59 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
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From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: No emails!!!
Comments: To: Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@YAHOO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <971966.46025.qm@web52110.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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At 03:16 PM 2/9/2008, Michael Sullivan wrote...
Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@yahoo.com> wrote:
>This is a GREAT example of log jam from Gerry.

What make you think it is Gerry? I already pointed out to you that
Gerry didn't seem to be delaying email when you complained yesterday.
It may be that yahoo has internal processing delays, or may be
throttling email receipts or that one or more of their inbound mail
servers is malfunctioning. Yahoo has 7 MX records (mail servers), and
some of those resolve to multiple IP addresses. If one is
malfunctioning, and doesn't accept mail from Gerry for some reason,
Gerry will properly back off before retrying. Gerry runs qmail, so for
a message delivered after 2 days and 1 hour, that would have been the
22nd delivery attempt.
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#retry-schedule

You can't just blame Gerry for delayed email - at least look at the
headers and see when it was received by yahoo from gerry.

I received the email from Gerry about 6 minutes after you sent it.
Relevant headers:

>Received: from gerry.vanagon.com ([71.126.148.6])
>         by box261.bluehost.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68)
>         (envelope-from <owner-vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>)
>         id 1JNA7O-00047c-RZ
>         for mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:00:58 -0700
>Received: from web52103.mail.re2.yahoo.com by gerry.vanagon.com (LSMTP
>for
>           Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id
> <0.0029F3BA@gerry.vanagon.com>; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:54:17 -0500