Hi, After starting this interesting conversation I stop using outlook and periodically logged into xtra's web mail. From 10:30 to 3:50pm I had no emails in my inbox then all of a sudden I had in excess of 30. The order they were in the inbox was random and the times were right through the day. As I am silly enough to use xtra it looks like I may be packing my bags and changing camps.
Maurice -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of GARY T BENNER Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2004 3:28 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Random mail message order [Reply] Hi all, We are using the Mailman mail server, and the result you see is primarily due to the vagaries of Internet connectivity, not the mailserver itself. When a message comes in to the server, it is despatched to all email addresses registered on the List. However if it meets with a difficulty connecting with your mail server, then that message gets queued to be dealt with 'x' minutes later. If a subsequent message to the list gets sent ( the reply to the first one), and the link to your mail server is now working, then the second message will be delivered first. Unavailibility of a mail server can be due to many reasons - the link itself, the mail server being overloaded ... whatever, there can be many causes. Can you not order your email messages by the date time stamp, to get them put in proper order? Or is that date time received?? regards Gary List Admin ( on holiday in a Taihape Internet Cafe having a coffee and internet fix !! ) | To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | CC : | From: Like Magic, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Content Type: text/plain | Attached: | | Hi, | Is it my machine or a mail server somewhere causing the mail from the list | to arrive in a completely random order. Some messages can be up to 12 hours | late, I see answers before the question. It makes the list very hard to | follow. | | Maurice | | _______________________________________________ | Offtopic mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic | ======================================================== Gary Benner - e-Engineer and Software Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 123 Internet Ltd Lecturer in Information Technology - Waiariki Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
