[ale] E-mail in a Time Warp?

[Swantje Willms]

The future time/date messages may be from someone sitting in Europe or
Asia. Seems like your Email is sorted by date/time without taking time
zones into account.

Swantje

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, jeff hubbs wrote:

> With the ALE list getting pretty popular, there have been lots of 
> messages most every day.
> 
> Every so often, a new ALE message will come into Mozilla Messenger with 
> a weird date/time, like, say, the next day.  As I typically sort my 
> inbox list by date/time descending, these messages will stay at the top 
> of the list with new, reasonably-dated messages coming in just 
> underneath.  This, I figure, is symptomatic of an incorrectly-set clock 
> on (usually) the machine composing the message.
> 
> However, lately, something different is happening - I get messages from 
> various people that are old - as much as on the order of ten hours old. 
>     The nature of this is such that wrong local clocks probably isn't 
> the cause.
> 
> The best I can figure is that mail servers in between - either at my 
> ISP, the senders', or both - are holding mail for an awfully long time. 
>     This could be because of a network outage in between that causes the 
> sending MTA (is that the right term?) to hold the message and retry 
> later (speaking of which, I just rememebered that I've gotten a couple 
> of ezlim warning messages regarding ale at ale.org and unemployed at ale.org 
> saying that messages have been bouncing.
> 
> Anyone care to speculate on what's going on behind the scenes?  If I 
> call AT&T techsupp, the baboon that answers probably isn't going to know 
> the first thing.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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