from xtra web site saterday morning Current Status There is currently 1 known problem with the Xtra Network Unscheduled Event Products Affected: All Connections Areas Affected: Nationwide System(s) Affected: Receiving Email Sending Email System(s) Response: Intermittent Current Status: Investigating Resolution Expected: Unknown
> > From: "Allan, Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/04/23 Fri PM 03:56:42 GMT+12:00 > To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Random mail message order > > Sounds like Xtra'a email server is having problems and will be going > down for "a couple of days". So perhaps these are the symptoms. I just > heard from our systems guys that connections to their mail server are > timing out. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Like Magic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 22 2004 5:23 p.m. > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List' > Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Random mail message order > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
