GMail is trying too hard
This is the first time ever that I’m seeing such a mailer daemon error:
Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon@gmail.com> to me
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
fink-beginners @ lists.sourceforge.net
Technical details of permanent failure:
TEMP_FAILURE: Too many connections to lists.sourceforge.net
Anybody else is facing this problem?
May 11th, 2005 at 12:48 am
Isn’t it more about lists.sourceforge.net being overloaded than GMail trying too hard?
JD
May 11th, 2005 at 8:34 am
Nope, read the message carefully - “Too many connections to sourceforge”.
Also, I’ve never faced that problem in Yahoo! Mail.
May 11th, 2005 at 9:50 am
??
I still don’t get it. Let’s talk about Web server. If there are too many connections open on Webserver, it would deny any new HTTP requests. It’s not HTTP client’s fault.
In the same way, mail server can be overloaded and it would deny any more new connections.
Btw, it’s true that this is very bizarre error. I have never seen it myself in my 6.5 years of using Internet.
JD
May 11th, 2005 at 10:57 am
But if a single client has too many connections open to the same server, that is the client’s fault. At least, that is what I think it is, because I’m not facing any problem with sourceforge lists through my yahoo account.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:47 am
It doesn’t say that the client had too many connections. It simply said that there “are” too many connections. It’s not a gmail issue, apparently at the exact moment the mail was being delivered, lists.sourceforge.net had too many connections.
Typically, a client will repeatedly attempt to send the mail, but if after “X” number of attempts, and the server is STILL unavailable, it will give up.