On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Timothy K. Cornelius wrote: > Does anyone on this list ever have email the takes as long as 1 week to be
Back when I ran a farily moderate volume mail gateway, I'd see some sites so broken that it took up to about 12 days to reach them. > delivered. I know how MS exchange works and you can set a retry period (say > 10 minutes)in the internet connection tab, but I have heard the some mail > admins don't set a retry and the default time for retry is 24 hours. Or Anyone using Exchange as a primary gateway kind of gets what they deserve ;) > could a mail relay at my ISP be causing the problem. Now most of our mail > goes to us just fine, but some people in the company (VP, secretaries of the > Pres., Comptroller...etc.) are complaining about latency in their email > delivery. Of course they are the ones you have the problem. Why couldn't it > be some peon in interoffice mail with the problem? Get a copy of the late mail, and analyze the headers. You'll be able to see when each hop accepted the mail and infer from there exactly where the problem is even accounting for clock drift, a week is long enough to see. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
