I've just been alerted to another incident of a delayed posting.  The user
sent the message at 11:01 (am!) on Tuesday, and the message was posted at
04:56 on Wednesday.  This is obviously unacceptable.  Here are excerpts
from the headers from this message:

>Received: from OCLC.ORG by OCLC.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with
>spool
>          id 26437 for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 04:56:31 -0500
>Received: from msunion.dev.oclc.org (oamailhost.dev.oclc.org) by oclc.org
>          (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13429; Tue, 4 Mar 97 11:01:13 EST
>Received: from Microsoft Mail (PU Serial #1083) by msunion.dev.oclc.org
>          (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9a for Windows NT(tm)) id
>          AA-1997Mar04.110126.1083.802142; Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:02:58 -0500
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail via PostalUnion/SMTP for Windows NT

And here is the relevant part in the LISTSERV log file:

>5 Mar 1997 04:56:31 Processing file 26437 from [log in to unmask]
>5 Mar 1997 04:56:31 Processing mail from [log in to unmask] for UNSNETCO-L
>5 Mar 1997 04:56:31 Directory /var/spool/listserv accessed as virtual disk
slot E.
>5 Mar 1997 04:56:31 Distributing mail ("UNSNETCO-L") from
[log in to unmask]
>..

The syslog file shows that the original message was received by mailhost
(AKA oclc.org, same machine where LISTSERV runs) at 11:01 on Tuesday, just
as the message headers say.

There are two things I don't understand, both from the LISTSERV log.  The
first is the line that says it's processing a file from [log in to unmask]
The machine "mailer" is our incoming Internet mail relay; it should not be
involved in any part of the process, and furthermore, the syslogs on mailer
show absolutely nothing around this time (04:56 Wednesday).

The other question is what does the line about accessing the spool
directory as virtual disk slot E mean?

Any ideas anyone?  I'm pretty confused...

Thanks!

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Laura Toms
UNIX Sytem Administrator and Postmaster
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, Ohio
[log in to unmask]
1-800-848-5878 x5016
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