Email - up to 10 hour delays?

Anyone else getting such extended dealys on emails?

I thought we were over such protracted dealys with emails following all the upgrades and platform improvements.

There's plenty of spam arriving without delay in many of my mailboxes!
Seriously though, are these delays showing up in the headers as occurring on PlusNet's servers, if so, which one? It may help someone have a look at what is going on.

Hi,

I've not seen any other reports of delays, can you let us have the headers then we can see where the delay is being cause?

Okey dokey here is a header possibly of the worst one:-

Envelope-to: [email protected]
Delivery-date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:27:21 +0000
Received: by pih-sunmxcore17.plus.net with spam-scanned (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1I2rPM-0001s4-AL
for [email protected]; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:27:20 +0000
X-Daemon-Classification: INNOCENT
Received: from photography-on-the.net ([216.40.233.201] helo=rhe4.ev1servers.net)
by pih-sunmxcore17.plus.net with esmtp (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1I2rPL-0001pY-Hc
for [email protected]; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:27:19 +0000
Received: from rhe4.ev1servers.net (rhe4.ev1servers.net [127.0.0.1])
by rhe4.ev1servers.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l5PGE5HV007026
for <[email protected]>; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:20:47 -0500
Received: (from apache@localhost)
by rhe4.ev1servers.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l5OLsdSn021881;
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:54:39 -0500
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:54:39 -0500
X-Authentication-Warning: rhe4.ev1servers.net: apache set sender to [email protected] using -f
To: [email protected]

Just taken out my email addy details. This one as read it has had a 24 hour delay!!!



PS As you can tell the notification for this forum came through very quickly???!!!!

Hi Dave

To avoid the ned to edit out my personal details should I forward a bunch of them to you? If so what addy should I use?

TIA

Looking at those logs the delay is well outside of PN with what looks like a 19 hour delay in the same server. PN received it at 5:27.19 tonight and delivered it to your mailbox 1 second later.

Looks like that one was delayed on rhe4.ev1servers.net for 18 hours, the difference in timezones will account for the remaining hours.

This site's very useful for translating mail delays:

http://www.levinecentral.com/mail_parse/default.aspx

Yip. The delay is well outside of our control. The initial delay seems to have occcurred at the sending server.

It seems that it took our mail platform a very short lenght of time to deliver it to you once we had recieved it.

Thanks Dave 'scary' & Mark for the insight.