Copying from http://fab.wmflabs.org/T348 ; confirmed by other users
Notification mail from http://fab.wmflabs.org/ has lag (and I think I also miss notifications, so they get lost). Two examples:
My last bugmail notification from http://fab.wmflabs.org/T335 I received was from Fri, 16 May 2014 20:24:51 +0000:
"aklapper added a subscriber: aklapper."
so I am explicitly subscribed to it. But I only realized that there are new comments on T335 via the feed icon on http://fab.wmflabs.org itself. I should have received notifications. My spam folder is empty and searching for "335" does not show any newer messages. I've checked both in my desktop email client and via the browser on mail.google.com.
Furthermore, for my visibility change in http://fab.wmflabs.org/T12 I received a notification message on Thu, 22 May 2014 23:31:27 UTC when I slept already for a few hours:
Delivered-To: aklapper@wikimedia.org
Received: by 10.140.47.144 with SMTP id m16csp235382qga; Thu, 22 May 2014
16:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.224.134.194 with SMTP id k2mr1301090qat.5.1400801489448;
Thu, 22 May 2014 16:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <root@wikimedia.org>
Received: from mchenry.wikimedia.org (mchenry.wikimedia.org.
[208.80.152.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
f1si1648140qai.52.2014.05.22.16.31.29 for <aklapper@wikimedia.org>; Thu, 22
May 2014 16:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of root@wikimedia.org designates
208.80.152.186 as permitted sender)
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of
root@wikimedia.org designates 208.80.152.186 as permitted sender)
smtp.mail=root@wikimedia.org
Received: from [10.68.16.110] (port=33970 helo=fab2.eqiad.wmflabs) by
mchenry.wikimedia.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from
<root@wikimedia.org>) id 1WncSN-00018T-UL for aklapper@wikimedia.org; Thu,
22 May 2014 23:31:29 +0000
Received: from jenkins-bot by fab2.eqiad.wmflabs with local (Exim 4.76)
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aklapper@wikimedia.org; Thu, 22 May 2014 23:31:27 +0000
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 23:31:27 +0000
However I made this change on Tue, May 20, 16:55 UTC according to the date stamp in http://fab.wmflabs.org/T12 .
So there seems to be a delivery delay of more than two days.
My attention workflow is mostly email based so this is really really distracting.
<Coren> andre: If I had to venture a guess, that's a problem with the mail setup on the phabricator instances and not related to mchenry -- but it might be a problem in the *default* mail handling setup on instances.
My exim4 skillz are limited - I'm more of a postfix dude - but I could take a look at it if you open a bz for me (sorry, the labs workflow is still on the old tools) :-)
andre: I should say the first thing to look at would be the mail logs on the instance the email originates from; in particular, you want to look for emails being deffered.
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Severity: major