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From: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Subject: Re: Delayed mail messages
Message-ID: <E2JHF6.66s@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
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References: <32B59075.4950@mc.net>
Distribution: na,usa,world
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 03:52:17 GMT
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	You need to examine the Received headers of the message
and determine where the delay is happening. At that point, you or
a remote site can examine the sendmail logs and see what caused the
delivery delay.

-Alby



In article <32B59075.4950@mc.net> Stephen Dolloff <vardalak@mc.net> writes:
> I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this before...
> 
> For the most part our mail works really well, but lately
> I've been getting complaints that some messages are
> delayed up to as much as a week.  There doesn't appear to be
> any reason for the specific messages to be delayed.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks