On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:40:46AM -0500, Shane Williams wrote:

| Where the heck did that come from?  Seriously, I'd like to know how an
| email gets delivered over a year late?

[ I'm answering the rhetorical question, not the specific question
  `what happened THIS time' ... ]

Occasionally mails get `stuck' in the mqueue and never get shipped out
until the system is rebooted, or perhaps until sendmail is upgraded.

Sometimes people restore backups, including the mail queue, and stuff
goes out.

Happens more often than you might think.  :)

-- 
Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consciousness:  That annoying time between naps.
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