Re: Bug report not created for message ID <address@hidden>

[Bob Proulx]

J.P. wrote:
> "J.P." <jp@neverwas.me> writes:
> > Someone recently tried to file a bug report for GNU Emacs but didn't
> > receive a bug number. They Cc'd emacs-erc@gnu.org directly (instead of
> > via X-Debbugs-CC), if that matters. I do see it on
> >
> >   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-erc/2024-03/msg00002.html
> >
> > but it hasn't shown up on debbugs or bug-gnu-emacs (yet). Strangely, it
> > did make it to gmane.emacs.bugs. Please advise on how to proceed.
>
> Actually, nix that. It went through after all. Corwin filled us in on
> the deets. Cheers.

Just to follow up somewhat.  The debbugs machine has been getting hit
with a heavy duty spam wave.  The anti-spam has been working well
enough but sometimes all of the exim processes are busy processing
spam.  That causes the legitimate mail to be delayed in the receiving
queue on the sender machine trying to send it to debbugs.

I have noticed that sometimes with mail from my system where I can see
the mail logs trying to send to debbugs that messages from here to
there will sometimes have to retry.

I'll see something like this for example on my side of the logging.

    postfix/smtp[20227]: 25CCF650: to=<debbugs-submit-request@debbugs.gnu.org>, 
relay=debbugs.gnu.org[209.51.188.43]:25, delay=0.41, delays=0.19/0/0.22/0, 
dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host debbugs.gnu.org[209.51.188.43] refused to talk 
to me: 421 Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later.)

The mail will queue and eventually be delivered.

Bob