[gdal-dev] GDAL mailing list email delays

[Laurențiu Nicola]

Hi,

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.

I'm personally not a fan of this, but..

Laurentiu

On Thu, May 29, 2025, at 20:29, Daniel Evans via gdal-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> 
> For example, in the recent thread on Java bindings, the email headers show the following;
> 
> Tom's initial email was delayed by 48 minutes, arriving at 1715 UTC:
> - Originally sent by the mailing list at 1627 UTC
> - After a few internal hops, received by lists.osgeo.org at 1636 UTC (with a header stating X-Greylist: delayed by 473 seconds)
> - Received my email provider's servers at 1715 UTC
> 
> Even's reply was rather speedier, arriving at 1705 UTC, ten minutes before the email it was replying to:
> - Originally sent by the mailing list at 1705
> - Received by lists.osgeo.org at 1705
> - Received by my email provider at 1705
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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