Sean, In my experiance, these sorts of things are nearly always delays with DNS lookups. In fact, DNS is the root of *all* evil in the world :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Carr [mailto:pne1881@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, 1 mmmm 2003 10:11 > To: msexchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [msexchange] Email Delays > > > I'm new to the list - been lurking for a couple of weeks. > > I'm filling in for someone next week. I don't have much Exchange > experience but a client rang today to tell me that emails are > sometimes taking up to 4/5 hours to arrive from customers (not a > date-stamping issue). > > It's Exchange 2000 on a 2K Member Server (SP3). Can't tell you much > more than that other than it was OK last week but I know Surfcontrol > is used on that system. Also some weird datestamping going on - I > sent the guy an external email and it arrived immediately but was > date stamped 20 mins in the future. > > I'm going out to the site on Monday - anybody seen this kinda thing > before - help appreciated on this. > > Bye for now, > Sean Carr > Techniche Ltd. > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! > Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk > > > ===================== > Use the below link for Archives, > and to set your preferences. > > http://thethin.net/exchangelist.cfm > ===================== Use the below link for Archives, and to set your preferences. http://thethin.net/exchangelist.cfm