Re: Test

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sun 02 Mar 2014 at 09:54:01 +0000, Tom Furie wrote:

> If you look at the headers on your posts (or anyone else's for that
> matter), you can track the progress from origin to destination. In this
> instance the messages were received by the Debian mail system almost
> immediately you sent them, they then came back out (in my case) fifteen
> minutes later. Other people may have received their copies earlier or
> later depending on several factors.
> 
> Email is not a real-time communication system, sometimes there are
> delays, or even failures, at any step along the route.

The interesting questions involve what is happening on bendel after a
mail is accepted. 

1. Why is any mail delayed for 15 minutes before onward transmission?

2. Why do some users and not others experience this 15 minute delay?