Not getting reported post emails on time.

AlmightyCushion

I only seem to be getting the reported post emails a few hours after I should (about 5 hours or so). I've tested and it's doesn't seem to be gmail acting up on me as I am getting other emails just fine.

Dr Bollocko seems to be having the same or a similar problem.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Same here, it's been slow all day. I thought it was just me.
For instance, I just got Des's post email now and it was posted at 6PM
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58995048&postcount=31

AlmightyCushion

Yeah the last one I got was at 17:47. There have been a few posts reported since then though.

Steve

yup me too, it's not gmail because I've sent myself stuff from another account.

Sorry about the feedback thread, wanted to be sure it was a site issue before posting here.

edit: for me it's all email notifications, my little backwater forum doesn't get reported posts.... or even, erm, posts...:o

IRLConor

My e-mail notifications are coming in fine, it takes a little under a minute on average, judging by the headers.

Have a look at the Received headers on the e-mails that were slow, it should give you a clue as to where the slowdown is.

Here's what mine look like. Read from the bottom to the top, see the time differences. Where there's a big time difference, that's where the problem is. If there are no big time differences, then it's getting stuck before it leaves vBulletin.

Received: from smtp.boards.ie ([89.234.66.109])
	by mymailserver.washere.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63)
	(envelope-from <no-reply@boards.ie>)
	id 1LXOpO-0000ev-Tn
	for myemailaddress@washere.com; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:49:14 +0000
Received: from 89.234.66.109 (unknown [89.234.66.101])
	by smtp.boards.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97E3FF5530
	for <myemailaddress@washere.com>; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:48:19 +0000 (GMT)

AlmightyCushion

Here's what I'm getting:

Received: from smtp.boards.ie (smtp.boards.ie [89.234.66.109])
         by mx.google.com with ESMTP 
         id m38si11199139ugd.10.2009.02.11.14.25.03;
         Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:25:03 -0800 (PST)

Received: from 89.234.66.109 (unknown [89.234.66.101])
         by smtp.boards.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP 
         id E1924FF47DD for <myemail@gmail.com>;
         Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:45:34 +0000 (GMT)

That seems to be where things are going wrong for me. Not too sure but it still looks like a boards issue for me.

AlmightyCushion

After a bit of testing here. It seems to be limited to gmail.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59000901#post59000901

IRLConor

Well, I heard that GMail was having issues earlier. If it was telling smtp.boards.ie to "try again later" you'd see stuff like you were.

AlmightyCushion

When he said that would match up as to when the last email I got was. That looks to be it.

muffler

Im having the same problem with gmail. For example i just got a notification of a new PM that was sent yesterday evening at 6:30.

Normally in the early afternoon i could have 25-30 notifications but not a single one today.

Red Sleeping Beauty

I'm assuming this will affect reported Adverts(muffy;)) ?

I just got an email linking to OVerheal's post
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055485818&goto=newpost

Dord

I have noticed a delay in receiving notification emails from boards. Not as much as others but I'll keep an eye on it. I'm using Gmail also...

I might switch over to my website email address to see if thats ok.

Sparks

Same problem, also with gmail.

Mr Magnolia

and again. Not getting some PM & Reported post notifications. Gmail also, not in trash or spam folders.

seamus

It's Gmail alright, and Gmail alone. There's a delay of about 8 hours between the sending and the receiving. If there was some problem with DNS, that may be a suspect.

Steve

Everything is coming through with about a 16 hour delay now.
You'll get them all tomorrow.

CuLT

We're losing some mails somewhere according to the mail graphs, will get looked at as soon as possible, ta.

Of course, any continued speculation is also helpful

Sparks

Sunspots FTW.

javaboy

Eddy's in the space time continuum?

Faith

Yeah, I just spotted a reported post in the forum, but I never got emailed about it. I also never got my happy birthday email today . It's a gmail account. I got the happy birthday emails from all the other boards sites, but they went to a hotmail account.

eVeNtInE

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seamus

Don't worry Faith, you'll get it tomorrow just in time to remind you that it's not your birthday anymore.

dr.bollocko

I've got an 18 hour delay at the moment.
Kinda hampering my mod spidey powers as I tend to only take a sneaky gawk at the gmail whilst working.

Dord

I checked to see if there was a delay between other forums or websites and Gmails but there doesn't seem to be. For another forum I'm on (that also uses VB) I receive the notifications through Gmail immediately.

I think this could be an issue between Boards and Gmail only?

gurramok

Same here from a non-mod mere mortal

Should of got at least a dozen mails on active threads today, not a single one has arrived in gmail yet from boards only!

AlmightyCushion

Sparks wrote: »

Sunspots FTW.

Have you not been watching heroes??? It's the solar eclipse, duh!!!!!!

Also, happy birthday, Faith.

Gordon

Happy Birthday Faith!

CuLT

Just posting a snippet of the logs here to show what's happening.

I'm not sure where to even begin fixing this, so have to wait for assistance.

Feb 13 09:26:33 smtp postfix/qmgr[3168]: DEE47FF493A: from=<>, size=3484, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 13 09:26:33 smtp postfix/qmgr[3168]: 3A398FF463F: removed
Feb 13 09:26:33 smtp postfix/smtp[24393]: DEE47FF493A: to=<no-reply@boards.ie>, relay=mail1.hosting.digiweb.ie[89.234.64.49], delay=0, status=sent (250 ok 1234517250 qp 1654)
Feb 13 09:26:33 smtp postfix/qmgr[3168]: DEE47FF493A: removed
Feb 13 09:26:34 smtp postfix/smtp[19822]: 5A011FF4640: to=<someuser@hotmail.com>, relay=mx3.hotmail.com[65.54.244.200], delay=1, status=sent (250  <20090213092715.20f361113eba@www.boards.ie> Queued mail for delivery)
Feb 13 09:26:34 smtp postfix/qmgr[3168]: 5A011FF4640: removed
Feb 13 09:26:43 smtp postfix/smtp[24394]: B1DCAFF4644: to=<someuser1@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[66.249.93.27], delay=93895, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1234517259 32si23096472ugf.19)
Feb 13 09:26:43 smtp postfix/qmgr[3168]: B1DCAFF4644: removed
Feb 13 09:26:44 smtp postfix/smtp[26101]: 46337FF4645: to=<someuser2@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[66.249.93.27], delay=93865, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1234517260 32si23096472ugf.19)
Feb 13 09:26:44 smtp postfix/qmgr[3168]: 46337FF4645: removed
Feb 13 09:26:45 smtp postfix/smtp[21571]: 2FD8BFF4647: to=<someuser3@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[66.249.93.27], delay=93857, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1234517261 32si23096472ugf.19)

seamus

Don't know much about postfix, but a quick google says that the mails are sitting with boards waiting for delivery.

Perhaps with the DNS change Gmail are accidentally implementing some form of Honeypot to prevent spam?

CuLT

seamus wrote: »

Don't know much about postfix, but a quick google says that the mails are sitting with boards waiting for delivery.

Perhaps with the DNS change Gmail are accidentally implementing some form of Honeypot to prevent spam?

Must be, I'm getting my notifications fine, and they're passed from ross@boards.ie to gmail. So must be anything routed directly from us to the gmail smtp server.

seamus

Pointless breeze-shooting here:

Can you pause the queue on postfix, configure it to relay all mail to someone upstream (like Digiweb) and then kick it off again?

CuLT

Well, I've cleared the mailqueue now as it's all just notifcations anyway; still a queue building for gmail addresses. It's not gigantic, but it is increasing. Talking to ecksor and Asok about it at the moment.

We already relay through Digiweb afaik.

Edit:

But of course the gmail stuff isn't relaying through Digiweb *smacks forehead*

seamus

PM me if you want to test, I'll get a notification email about it.

Steve

If it helps - I just got a reply notification for post #30 in this thread which a big improvement. About 32min lag.

CuLT

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gmail_delivery_delays.php

Significant delays in the delivery of email messages to Gmail users are being widely reported with no apparent response from Google. As an increasing number of people choose to forward their email to and from Gmail, these delays present a real problem - enough business decisions are made based on email threads that delays of 9 to 12 hours for delivery could be a deal breaker for some users...
Rest of article.

seamus

Seems to be improving now somewhat. Typical.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Thanks to either Ross or Geemail or whoever fixed it. There's a shortish delay of about half hour now, better than 16hours

eVeNtInE

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CuLT

ok, relaying through digiweb now, will see if it makes any difference.

Steve

Still about a 20-25 minute lag for me, improving slowly.

Red Sleeping Beauty

I've got notifications set to instant reply and I only just got Steve's reply .

dr.bollocko

It's back to a 3 hour delay now.

Steve

Erm... looks like its fixed after the outage \o/

Did you do something there CuLT?

muffler

Yip. Mine are flying now like shite of a shovel

Red Sleeping Beauty

****e off a shovel ?

Man, ye can't beat the Donegal sense of humour

CuLT

Using a difference SMTP server for boards.ie mail at the moment.

Adverts.ie just fires them off from whatever node is active at the time though, PITA, will require some hacking.

Random

This has started happening me tonight. About a 2 or 3 hr delay with some of them. Using my own email account (address in profile).

Steve

It's working fine for me.