<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hi,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I think it's at least in part an anti-spam measure. We reject messages from new users and their server will try later. Spammers are less likely to retry delivery of their messages.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I'm personally not a fan of this, but..</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Laurentiu</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Thu, May 29, 2025, at 20:29, Daniel Evans via gdal-dev wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Over the last couple of months, I've been receiving emails from the gdal-dev list with a significant delay, with emails from threads sometimes arriving out of order.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, in the recent thread on Java bindings, the email headers show the following;</div><div><br></div><div>Tom's initial email was delayed by 48 minutes, arriving at 1715 UTC:</div><div>- Originally sent by the mailing list at 1627 UTC</div><div>- After a few internal hops, received by <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org">lists.osgeo.org</a> at 1636 UTC (with a header stating X-Greylist: delayed by 473 seconds)</div><div>- Received my email provider's servers at 1715 UTC</div><div><br></div><div>Even's reply was rather speedier, arriving at 1705 UTC, ten minutes before the email it was replying to:</div><div>- Originally sent by the mailing list at 1705</div><div>- Received by <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org">lists.osgeo.org</a> at 1705</div><div>- Received by my email provider at 1705</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone else been observing similar behaviour? Given that some people are replying before I see earlier emails, it's clearly not the same for all recipients.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Daniel</div></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>gdal-dev mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a></div><div><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>