EMail Delays

[#1]

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This is an update to the previously reported problem resulting in intermittent email delays when sending messages using our relay servers. A copy of the original announcement can be seen here:- http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1188497851.htm Further details regarding the progress of the investigation throughout today can be seen here:- http://www.plus.net/support/service/problems/problem.php?intProblemId=45409 Our monitoring suggests that email send after midday today should no longer be suffering from delays. We are finalising the build of two additional outgoing mail servers and will keep this Service Status thread open over the weekend for monitoring.

Just received this email and there seems to have been a 1 hour delay unless one of the servers has its time screwed up.

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Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net ([212.159.14.131])   by pih-sunmxcore19.plus.net with esmtp (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1IRWd9-00005i-R6   for ####.plus.com; Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:19:31 +0000 Received: from [192.168.101.43] (helo=fhw-community04.plus.net) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1IRWd7-0003Vb-K7 for ######.plus.com; Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:19:29 +0100 Received: from www-data by fhw-community04.plus.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from <www-data@fhw-community04.plus.net>) id 1IRWd7-0004oE-Ar for ######.plus.com; Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:19:29 +0100

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Looks fine to me, this is useful for decoding message headers:
http://www.levinecentral.com/mail_parse/default.aspx
Looks like one server is using GMT and the other BST.

[#3]

I thought that might be the case but from the previous problems with servers having incorrect times I would have assumed that this would not be possible.
Is this something which should be fixed.

[#4]

It would be nice to avoid confusion when reading the headers and I have raised it a couple of times. Our relays are on BST whilst our mx.core's are on GMT. There's no service affecting consequences although I'll keep chasing to see if something can be done about it.