I wonder if anyone here can help me understand why some mails sent to me take hours, sometimes even a day or more, to arrive. If nothing else, can anyone here tell me they see the same thing sometimes? Too often? Increasingly so? These kinds of delays seem to be happening to me more often than usual, lately.
It's not all mails, by any means, just some. And intermittently. But there is one company, Dow Jones, whose mails seem to be delayed more often than others. I have wondered if it is my ISP, Verizon, which seems fairly neanderthalic in many respects, and has had notorious trouble with spammers in the past and may therefore be doing something to mail that no one else does. But I am only speculating. Here's a header (slightly expanded for easier parsing) of a mail that just took 25 hours to reach me. (By the way, all during this delay, I had CE asking for mail from Verizon every 5 minutes.) What I think I see is Verizon getting the mail from Dow Jones only on Wed., today, tho it was created and sent yesterday. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from gateway.dowjones.com ([192.168.1.7]) by mta016.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:27:59 -0600 Received: from gateway.dowjones.com (208.144.114.11) by sc004pub.verizon.net (MailPass SMTP server v1.1.1 - 121803235448JY) with SMTP id <1-31767-117-31767-86975-1-1075314478> for mta016.verizon.net; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:27:59 -0600 Received: by gateway.dowjones.com; id MAA24761; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:35:21 -0500 Received: from sbkmxscon01.mcn.dowjones.com(162.55.46.132) by gateway.gateway.dowjones.com via smap (V4.2) id xma024341; Tue, 27 Jan 04 12:33:31 -0500 Received: by sbkmxscon01 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.89) id <DXZR42XT>; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:33:30 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'John Verity'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: 2 quickies Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:33:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.89) Content-Type: text/plain %%%%%%%%%%%%%% John W. Verity So. Orange, NJ 973-763-1241 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
