A few posts ago I reported a 3.5 day delay in getting an email from my NTL home account at work. I posted some of the headers to prove the point. PEM amongst others said this could be due to a retry between NTL servers and Messagelabs (whom my work uses for mail scanning). Subsequently 2 or 3 others in this thread and others in the smtp thread reported big delays over last weekend seeming to put the problem back in NTL's court.
Lo and behold this morning I get the same email AGAIN, this time delayed by over 1 week. Strangely there is one digit different in the message ID, although the times are the same (see below). The email seems to have routed via a different NTL queue server.
Can someone explain this please?
APS
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Received: from queue4-win.server.ntlworld.com (HELO queue4-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.224)
by server-14.tower-32.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 03:20:59 -0000
Received: from andrew ([81.XX.XX.XX]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com
(InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP
id <20040422213418.STOQ1587.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew>
for <
andrew@xyz.co.uk>; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:34:18 +0100