#2644 Huge delay in receiving emails on my @fp.o alias
Closed: Fixed None Opened 13 years ago by bochecha.

= phenomenon =
Since a few days, I noticed that I was not receiving emails sent to bochecha@fp.o regularly. Instead, I receive them in huge batches, once or twice per day.

Looking at a specific email, it seems to have a delay of 8 hours and a half:
{{{
Received: from bastion.fedoraproject.org (bastion02.fedoraproject.org [209.132.181.3]) by lavabit.com with ESMTP id 9U7G9LZTY68P for bochecha@lavabit.com; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:32:03 -0600
Received: by bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) id 81247110768; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
}}}

This email is part of a test that I made:
* I sent myself two emails at the same time, one to bochecha@fp.o and one to the address pointed by the alias
* the one going straight to my mailbox arrived within a few minutes
* the one going through the @fp.o alias arrived more than 8 hours later (headers above)

= reason =
I don't really have any idea what the reason might be.

= recommendation =
None, except maybe "do what is needed for my emails to arrive within a reasonable delay", but that's not very helpful. :)

(leaving the default ticket properties)


Were those the complete headers? There should have been a couple of hops I think between the two.

There were a few hops '''before''' those ones, but nothing in between. The ones before were mostly virus and spam scanning internal to my company since that's where I sent the test email from.

The whole relevant part (i.e from the first server inside Fedora/Red Hat that gets the message) is this:
{{{
Received: from bastion.fedoraproject.org (bastion02.fedoraproject.org [209.132.181.3]) by lavabit.com with ESMTP id 9U7G9LZTY68P for bochecha@lavabit.com; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:32:03 -0600
Received: by bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) id 81247110768; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
Delivered-to: bochecha@fedoraproject.org
Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2CB10F84F for bochecha@fedoraproject.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from nbmailscanhq1.network-box.com (erika.network-box.com [202.52.42.180]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1N94npf023411 for bochecha@fedoraproject.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:04:50 -0500
}}}

What I had given earlier were merely the last two hops, where the delay seems to be introduced.

Below is another test email that a friend sent me from his GMail account:
{{{
Received: from bastion.fedoraproject.org (bastion02.fedoraproject.org [209.132.181.3]) by lavabit.com with ESMTP id YW29KFININUW for bochecha@lavabit.com; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:11:53 -0600
Received: by bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) id 2A1CF110C5A; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:04:46 +0000 (UTC)
Delivered-to: bochecha@fedoraproject.org
Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx11.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.16]) by bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25460110C44 for bochecha@fedoraproject.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:04:46 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1OI4Xao004526 for bochecha@fedoraproject.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:04:34 -0500
}}}

This time the message was only delayed by two hours, and it is again introduced between the last two lines at the top.

If there are really a couple more hops between those, then for some reason they don't appear in the message headers. :-/

The problem hasn't happened for at least a week, I'm receiving all my emails to my @fp.o alias without any huge delay, just like if I write directly to the actual inbox address.

Don't know if you changed/fixed something, but it's working fine now, thanks. :)

Well, nothing changed that I can think of that would affect this. ;(

Should we just close it for now and watch for it to happen again?

Unfortunately, it appears I spoke too fast, it happened again.

Here are the headers of an email I received yesterday, but that was sent on Friday:
{{{
Return-Path: ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org
Received: from bastion.fedoraproject.org (bastion02.fedoraproject.org
[209.132.181.3]) by lavabit.com with ESMTP id FJ0S56MRP62W for
bochecha@lavabit.com; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:15:28 -0500
Received: by bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) id 54EF0110675;
Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:15:27 +0000 (UTC)
Delivered-To: bochecha@fedoraproject.org
Received: from lists.fedoraproject.org (collab1.vpn.fedoraproject.org
[192.168.1.21]) by bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id
05D4C10F8A7; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:15:27 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from collab1.fedoraproject.org (localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1]) by lists.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id
6A7A9326766; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:15:26 +0000 (UTC)
X-Original-To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
Delivered-To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
Received: from smtp-mm02.fedoraproject.org (smtp-mm2.fedoraproject.org
[66.35.62.164]) by lists.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id
0AAA0326783 for ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011
09:43:30 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mail-vx0-f173.google.com (mail-vx0-f173.google.com
[209.85.220.173]) by smtp-mm02.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id
8EF7FE7203 for ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011
09:43:29 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by vxb41 with SMTP id 41so3665373vxb.32 for
ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.52.172.5 with SMTP id ay5mr1164060vdc.155.1300441408885;
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.220.10.75 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTin0O1unOXbo6x8ecTFJpj-79y3u=v31_HEWhrVa@mail.gmail.com
References: AANLkTin9VwPXfJEaXu5KuEjVv9yVntb4S6yDUtW-eLYK@mail.gmail.com
1300426853.5578.33.camel@archer 4D83059D.2030908@nicubunu.ro
AANLkTin0O1unOXbo6x8ecTFJpj-79y3u=v31_HEWhrVa@mail.gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:43:28 +0200
Message-ID: AANLkTikWObs2GDppnZJGoaLQ215LXMi=GCHzgpzTuBdr@mail.gmail.com
From: Acid Core acidcore.15@gmail.com
To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:15:24 +0000
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] sponsorship from Microsoft to freesoftware
events in Nicaragua
X-BeenThere: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9
Precedence: list
Reply-To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
List-Id: <ambassadors.lists.fedoraproject.org>
List-Unsubscribe:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors,
ambassadors-request@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
List-Archive: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors
List-Post: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
List-Help: ambassadors-request@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=help
List-Subscribe:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors,
ambassadors-request@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=subscribe
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5114526906865895159=="
Sender: ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org
Errors-To: ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org
}}}

Notice that almost two days have been spent between:
{{{
Received: from smtp-mm02.fedoraproject.org (smtp-mm2.fedoraproject.org
[66.35.62.164]) by lists.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id
0AAA0326783 for ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011
09:43:30 +0000 (UTC)
}}}
And:
{{{
Received: from collab1.fedoraproject.org (localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1]) by lists.fedoraproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id
6A7A9326766; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:15:26 +0000 (UTC)
}}}

That's the only message which did that in a long time though, and it's on a mailing-list, so I'm wondering if it simply didn't get caught in the mailing-list moderation queue.

I can't reproduce it by sending an email directly to my @fp.o alias as I reported in the original comment, though.

Correct. Thats a moderated list where the post was held for moderation and only delivered after a moderator approved it.

In that case none of my incoming emails have been anormally delayed in the last two weeks, so I guess you can close the ticket.

I'll reopen it if it happens again.

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