EMail Delays

[THAT_GUEST]

Can someone please tell me why some of my messages on a particular email server delay messages by a coupleof days? I check it every day, and for the last two days, nothing. Today, I check it and there are messages two and three days old. What is causing that?

[monosodium]

Can someone please tell me why some of my messages on a particular email server delay messages by a coupleof days? I check it every day, and for the last two days, nothing. Today, I check it and there are messages two and three days old. What is causing that?

More than likely the inbound server was busy when the sender's smtp server tried to contact yours. But there could have been a bunch of reasons and these things happen sometimes when moving mails around inside your service providers networks.

If you found out the cause you still wouldn't be able to do much about it so don't fret it...

[THAT_GUEST]

Thanks Mono. I just get puzzled as to how I can check my mail everyday, and then get backdated mail. It isn't so bad, except for the fact I get my balls busted for not responding in a timely fashion.

[monosodium]

Ah - that's a bit of a problem. Unfortunately probably the email go to your server and usually sits in a queue. If there's a breakdown somewhere then the incoming mail sits safely in the queue until it's safe to be moved on. Nothing you can do, email is not a time-sensitive medium (as many people think it is)...

People used to get really agitated at my old-old workplace because I'd shut my email down for hours at a time, while people would email me asking me to do something within the hour when I was busy with something else.

[cosmicB]

Is it possible that the browser is full of trash cookies, trojans, and histories.. or the account is full, too?.. as in "delete from server after receiving emails" wasn't clicked On..?

Download: Spybot S&D, Node32, CCleaner, EasyCleaner, and Free Window Registry Repair...

If you are running W98, go to Run, and type in %temp%, and delete what it finds...

[cosmicB]

Another great cure for any of those symptoms is to download SeaMonkey.. "the best of the best"...

[monosodium]

Another great cure for any of those symptoms is to download SeaMonkey.. "the best of the best"...

I'd love to see seamonkey connect up to my ISP's server and force the mail through the system...

I suggest you go take a look at RFC 2822 which explains the SMTP mail system and there are various papers connected with it which explain the store & forward mechanisms employed by email servers.

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If you want your machine to run afterwards, leave all that lot well alone... Especially the registry tools.