Hey, we are talking e-MAIL not instant messaging. Snail mail only gets delivered once a day. Not only virus checking but spam filtering is active on some ISPs mail servers also. Do mail servers still work to a schedule (batch e-mail and send every 10 minutes or so)?
2 issues I have struck though
1/ Sent/Received dates are sometimes confusing. I've discovered some PCs are set up in an American time zone (while in ZN) so that the sent date/time is after the received time. Is the PCs time used or the mail server?
No, mail servers manage their queues without regard to what's contained in the message. Considering that a large number of people have no idea how to set their timezone and clocks correctly, times indicated in the headers of messages are unreliable.
2/ At home using MS Outlook sometimes I ask it to send/receive (I like to do it manually when on a dial-up connection) nothing happens (I have the connection icon shown in the task bar and it doesn't indicate traffic). I think a restart is required before Outlook behaves. Re-dialling isn't enough. Anyone else experienced this?
The icon in your task tray updates infrequently at best. Try viewing the connection status dialog (double-click the icon) and watch the byte counts. That will give you a much better indication of when data is being sent and received. If there is no mail on the server then the amount of traffic between Outlook and the mail server may be only tens of bytes in total.
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