[colug-432] Email slower than snail mail.

[William Yang]

On 05/06/2012 09:33 AM, Matt Meinwald wrote:
> There is no future-dating going on here. Some of the headers are in UTC and some
> in PDT. From these headers it shows the message going from Yahoo to Google from
> 13:34-13:35 UTly C (6:34-6:35 PDT or 9:34-9:35 EDT). If it was not received until
> 23:00 EDT, it indicates there was an issue on the Gmail side, not the Yahoo one.
> Perhaps spam graylisting?

So, I thought you were wrong, and I started writing a message to explain my
rationale... then accidentally sent it before I completed the analysis and
saw that you were correct.  Boy, is my face red!

For the record, the error I made was in applying both the UTC conversions
and a US timezone conversion when I read the header.  I guess I should
avoid those "mind trap" puzzles for a while.  ;-)  There was no future
dating, and there was also no real delay in getting to Google suggested in
the headers.

There was no Date: header, though, and that's still a sending side problem.

Rob Funk's point about the timing is correct, though: email delivery delays
measured in hours are not a substantial problem.

	-Bill
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William Yang
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