On 2012-02-08 at 05:46:15 [+0100], Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just for your -- and other's -- information, freelists.org seems to > be having some problems deliveiring mail promptly. > > I received your test post less than an hour ago (!) -- hours after > you sent it. (Though I think your post before that arrived fairly > quickly.) And earlier today I saw Donn's reply to my question > way before my own post came back to me! I've seen these symptoms from time to time since I joined the project. I guess something (server update, spam storm,...) simply caused a greater backlog than usual or the mail delivery failed for some reason (routing issue,...) and was retried hours later. CU, Ingo