Topic: email weirdness
heavenlyboy34's photo
Fri 01/14/11 09:41 PM
Edited by heavenlyboy34 on Fri 01/14/11 09:41 PM
Today my teacher sent me an email at noon (according to the header time stamp), but I didn't get it till about 8 hours later. I use yahoo and she uses the school's email system. What do you suppose happened? It's never happened before. what shocked Thanks, computer nerds! :smile:

FearandLoathing's photo
Fri 01/14/11 09:44 PM
Delays in email can happen for many reasons...usually server related...nothing you can really do about it.

Totage's photo
Fri 01/14/11 09:49 PM

Today my teacher sent me an email at noon (according to the header time stamp), but I didn't get it till about 8 hours later. I use yahoo and she uses the school's email system. What do you suppose happened? It's never happened before. what shocked Thanks, computer nerds! :smile:


It can take up to 24 hours some times for e mail to reach its destination, sometimes even longer. Like Fear said, it's usually server related and all you can do is wait it out, mot of the time.

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Fri 01/14/11 10:19 PM
hey HB - were you in a que? waving

basically, if there is a lot of activity in the server your message stands in line - just like you do for a beer, dear!

groundzer007's photo
Sat 01/15/11 10:29 AM
time could also be set wrong on pc

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Sun 01/16/11 03:52 PM

time could also be set wrong on pc


My vote is that the time stamp is wrong.

Its possible but unlikely that an eight hour delay was caused by server issues that day.