[FFmpeg-devel] Mailing List Delay

James Almer jamrial at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 16:23:12 EEST 2021


On 7/14/2021 10:17 AM, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 7/14/2021 12:27 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
>> Looking at the headers, it looks like the delay happens at Google before
>> the mail arrives to the mailing-list.
>>
>> Yours arrived quickly. Mine will too, I guess.
> 
> Sending from GMail, I have had anywhere from instantly, to 1.5 hours delay
> ever since moving to the "new" (Hungarian?) mailing list host. Especially
> when sending via git-send-email.
> 
> I have been bringing this up consstently for years, and been told it's
> a "non-issue", but it is incredibly annoying.
> 
> I am not sure if it's due to Google having issues (trust?) sending to
> out host, or the host having trouble receiving.
> 
> I have also noticed, since switching to this 'new' mysertious mailing
> list host a few years back that a chunk of ffmpeg-devel traffic gets
> filed into spam consistently. Also very annoying - I have missed several
> patches this way. This is not specific to GMail, for me, so far.
> 
> If it's a trust thing, sure, we can blame Google or whoever, but I think
> we should have a less cruddy experience for users of the largest email
> provider in the world, by default, rather just shrugging and saying "sucks
> to be you, don't use GMail".
> 
> - Derek

I'm mainly worried that yesterday was the second time in a month that 
the mail server apparently crashed and had to be restarted. No email 
seems to have been lost because of it, but it was an entire day in which 
nothing was sent.


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