On Friday, August 1, 2003, 09:56:17, Keith Purtell wrote: > Yes, the logs showed each being delivered. But this morning I got email from him, > saying that after > a long delay, the messages are arriving. I'm starting to think that either there's a > problem at his > end, or I'm not getting accurate information about the circumstances of the problem. > I may have to > double-check the logs and poll his recipients to see if they didn't get the mail on > time, or just > didn't respond right away. Here's his email to me:
> "Regarding the first email I sent yesterday with all recipients - I got no error > message, and no one > received that email until... this morning. Yes, 24 hours after I sent that email > people are > receiving it (people that receive many emails, like me, will never even notice this > email because it > shows up with yesterday's date and time, way down in the Inbox view). Last time I > sent an email > message to this group and had the same problem, I noticed the same symptoms (many > hours delay, but > eventually the email did show up). So, I think it's safe to say that we are dealing > with a very long > delay when the number of recipients is high." Once their server has accepted the mail for delivery it's their responsibility. The headers on the messages should show their server accepting the mail from your server at the time your logs show. The timestamps on the subsequent "Received:" header lines should highlite where the delay was. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
