Why do some emails take so long to get to me?

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I have a mac.com email address. What is weird is that some emails arrive 
within seconds of their being sent and others take hours. The weirdest case 
is that my significant other and I both have our computers set up in the same 
room and if I send her an email she gets it literally immediately but if she 
sends me an email it can take hours. Tonight she sent an email to a number of 
us, with a reply being requested to be sent to all. I have already received 
several replies but not the original.

Any thoughts/ideas/inspirations/advice/hexes will be welcome!

-- 
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

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Reply taliesinsoft (1869) 1/2/2006 5:34:15 AM

In article <0001HW.BFDE1777002733D8F0284550@news.supernews.com>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

> I have a mac.com email address. What is weird is that some emails arrive 
> within seconds of their being sent and others take hours. The weirdest case 
> is that my significant other and I both have our computers set up in the same 
> room and if I send her an email she gets it literally immediately but if she 
> sends me an email it can take hours. Tonight she sent an email to a number of 
> us, with a reply being requested to be sent to all. I have already received 
> several replies but not the original.
> 
> Any thoughts/ideas/inspirations/advice/hexes will be welcome!

Look at the full headers.  Is this consistent with all email sent from 
this machine or is it only sometimes?  If it erratic, then it's possibly 
a load problem somewhere along the line of email servers in the headers.

If it's consistent, then somewhere in that list of servers the email 
travels through is a slow or overloaded email server.  And no, I don't 
think there's a way to fix that once it leaves the ISP the machine is 
connected to unless it _is_ the ISP.

-- 
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Reply Michael 1/2/2006 6:00:38 AM


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