Don Gould wrote:
Thanks for this heads up Ross,
I've had a number of messages delayed going to different places
recently. It never occured to me.
Ross Drummond wrote:
Some comments;
Rick , the timestamp from your email client implies that the message
was created before it was processed by the mail servers.
I checked through the headers and found that it took less than two
minutes to reach my ISP (Snap). It was not available for download
from the pop server for approximately one hour after arrival at my ISP.
My guess is that it was held up in the spam filter que. Snap runs
SpamAssassin. A one hour delay is pretty good by recent standards.
At the height of the recent bot net spam deluge the delay was in the
order of 24 hours.
Yes, good contrib thanks Ross. We are using the same ISP. The delay must
be either there or on the canty.ac server. The spam deluge impacts on
the smaller ISPs the greatest, reports say, infrastructure/cost
proportions.
Cheers, Rik
