[Mailman-Users] Ongoing delivery issues - First Yahoo, now AOL

[Brian Carpenter]

> I have shared hosting and as such, am not in charge of anything.  In
> testing, I turned off all addresses except my AOL address and it came
> through just fine.  Then I turned all back on.  (25 addresses).  4 more
> messages were sent to mailman yesterday morning.  I immediately rec'd
> messages via my remote host, but not by my AOL or my local ISP
> accounts.
> However, all of those (AOL and ISP) arrived in the wee hours of this
> morning... approx. 16 hours after original posts.
> 
> I queried my hosts regarding a mail transport issue and sent them
> headers
> from messages in question.  Here is the response:
> 
> "According to my investigations the message contained more than 10
> recipients. That's why the first 10 recipients got their emails
> immediatelly
> and other copies of the message were delayed. I just advise you to
> reconfigure your maillist software to send individual email to each
> recipient."
> 
> Should I be looking for different hosting?
> 
> Rick

I would. A 25 member list should not be delayed for 16 hours. In your case
it is your host that would need to do some configuration of either their MTA
or the way their mailman installation interacts with it.

If you want, I can set you up with a test list on our mailman server so you
can see how fast your list would receive your posts. Just let me know if you
are interested.


Regards,
Brian
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