[SAC] Long email distribution delays on OSGeo lists since yesterday

[Jeff McKenna]

Since the issue related to mailman, and Trac notifications worked, the 
discussions were happening in the ticket: 
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2001   Is there a ghost working on 
this? (suddenly when I was trying commands and asking for privilege on 
server....interesting timing)

-jeff



On 2017-09-24 1:17 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Even Rouault
> <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I (as a few others) have noticed that emails sent to OSGeo lists have a
>> unusual distribution delay since roughly yesteday. Above 15 minutes for
>> sure.
>>
>> Perhaps an overloaded server ?
> 
> Yes, looks like that:
> http://webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org/munin/osgeo.org/osgeo6.osgeo.org/postfix_mailqueue.html
> 
> mailq | grep mailman-bounces at lists.osgeo.org | wc -l
> 91552
> 
> One issue is probably a single user/the related mail server (the same
> email address as last time) which currently has a backlog of
> 
> # email address not disclosed publicly:
> mailq | grep OMITTED | wc -l
> 39172
> 
> The error:
> 451 Recipient is busy, please try again later
> 
> MartinS may apply the postfix trick from last time to relax the situation.
> 
> Best,
> Markus
> 
>