Re: [exim] delayed email

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] delayed email
On 25 Jan 2005 at 21:26, Nicholas Gadacz wrote about
    "[exim] delayed email":


| We have an exim 4.43 mail server which our hosting company set up,
| however I am in charge of maintaining it. Every once in a while we
| will get a message which is delayed for 4-6 hours. The really weird
| thing is that sometimes it comes from the same domain. In the below
| case we host the mail for realprosystems.com joe tried to send a
| message to me, I got the message over 2 hours later.


Based on the headers in this example, exim delivered the message
within seconds of when Joe sent it (14:03 -0800 == 16:03 -0600).
Maybe you should be looking at your MUA?

|...
| Return-path: <joe@???>
| Envelope-to: gadacz@???
| Delivery-date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:03:53 -0600


This is when it was delivered to the mailstore (convenient that you
have the delivery_date_add transport option set).

| Received: from [65.103.68.6] (helo=joe7000)
| by svr1.realprosystems.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.43)
| id 1CtYmu-0004SM-TC
| for gadacz@???; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:03:53 -0600


This is when exim received it (the same second)

| From: "Joe Lininger" <joe@???>
| To: "'Nicholas Gadacz'" <gadacz@???>
| Subject: out of office
| Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:03:44 -0800


This is when Joe's MUA created the message (seven seconds earlier,
but by a different clock in a different time zone).

|...

- Fred