Is it certain that the delay is with the Plug mail server and not the initial
mail server (yours or Cox's or whoever) sending/receiving the message?  I have
gotten all my messages back within about 10 min of posting (the time I have NS
set to autocheck for new messages).

> > Where is the mail list server and what kind of hardware is it on?  There
> > is something definitely up with it.  As it regularly holds mail for 30-45
> > minutes and oftern times I will send 2 or 3 mails to it in a matter of
> > minutes and they will get posted back to the list in a different order.  I
> > have seen this happen to others as well.  It really should be fixed.
> 
> I've noticed in the headers that all our messages are going through mybutt
> (hardy har har).  ns2.sequoia.net and ns3.lufthans.com are doing DNS for
> the plug.phoenix.az.us domain.  lists.plug.phoenix.az.us has two MX
> records.  The priority 10 MX record points to lists.plug.phoenix.az.us and
> priority 20 points to pluglist.mybutt.net.  Both of these servers are on
> the same IP, however, which is the pluglist.mybutt.net box
> (cpe-24-221-56-24.az.sprintbbd.net).
> 
> So I'm wondering if lists.plug.phoenix.az.us was pointed to mybutt (hardy
> har har) a while back when we were having list problems, but was never
> pointed back to the PLUG IP: 68.14.214.151
> (wsip68-14-214-151.ph.ph.cox.net).
> 
> I'd be happy to host the list on a server at my work, if hardware is the
> problem.  But if it's just a configuration issue, we really need to fix it
> because it's frustrating when messages take so long to be processed.
> ~M
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