>But in the same respect I have had complaints about and seen with mine own
>eyes a Mail sent and it arrive 5 seconds later only time stamped two hours
>ahead. I looked at time on both the server and the client as well as the
>regional settings I even went as far as the hardware clock and still it does
>it.
If it is off by an exact number of hours (IE 2 hours off, not 2 hours and
20 minutes), then it is probably a time zone issue. If you live in the EST
time zone but have your computer set to PST, the time on your screen will
look correct, but the time in your E-mails will be 3 hours off.
You can see the time on the various mail servers that handled the E-mail by
looking that their "Received: " headers, which will be timestamped with the
time the E-mail hit the mail server.
We once worked on a program that was designed to tell you where delays in
E-mail delivery occurred, based on the Date: and Received: headers. But,
we found that so many mail servers had broken clocks (10+ minutes fast/slow
or wrong time zone) that it wasn't useful.
-Scott
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