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Weirdness -- Delayed email
03-26-2011, 03:52 PM
I meant to post this a couple days ago, but forgot to... Something weird happened with my email earlier this week -- over the course of several hours I received about a dozen emails that were months old -- one almost a year old -- interleaved among my normal traffic. I know these weren't copies of stuff I had received, because there was at least one personal message that I know I hadn't received before and would have responded to had it showed up in October when it had been sent. Several others were listings from job boards, ranging from April of last year to January of this year. There was no rhyme or reason, no pattern, to the selection.
So... has anyone else had anything like this happen to them? Anyone have a clue what might have happened?
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I've had it happen once, with a single email from someone that took something like six weeks to get to me.
My guess is that a relaying server had a hiccup and dropped the emails into a null buffer, and it finally coughed them back up.
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My old university mail system used to do that.... it was horrendously bletcherous and would cough up important mail weeks or more after it stopped being in any way relevant. They switched to a gmail-based system last year or two. It's better by far, though I lost all the contacts I had in the address book(Including some would-be references).
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if you care, you should be able to look at the received headers and see which mail server held onto the messages for forever and a day.
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Good idea. I'll have to check that ... later.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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