Mail order

[Bill]

No, not that sort 

I'm intrigued... my email has been arriving during the day in dribs and drabs, but in no discernible order... one posted a few seconds earlier is quite likely to be followed by (or even arrive with) one posted several hours ago. The next one might be somewhere in between...

I know this isn't an IDNet problem, I've seen it before with other email suppliers, but what is it that determines, in a backlog of mail, which messages get sent when?

[Simon]

It's a very interesting question, Bill.  Could it depend on the sender's mail server, perhaps, some being quicker than others?

My IDNet mail has also been arriving in dribs and drabs.  Curiously, messages from eBay (bid confirmations, etc) have been coming through quicker than those from IDNetters, i.e. PM notifications, but I put that down to the general situation with IDNet.com mail at the moment, which should hopefully soon be rectified.

[Bill]

Could it depend on the sender's mail server, perhaps, some being quicker than others?

Possible, but most of mine have been notifications from ThinkBroadBand, and afaik they only use one server to send mail out.

[Rik]

I haven't been able to put a pattern to it, Bill. Yesterday evening (Tues), notifications from here were taking 42 minutes, but tonight (Wed) it was up to 4 hours (that's going to my 1&1 mail). I know that, throughout the day, Clunker was under heavy load as the recovered mail from Saturday was fed back into the system, and perhaps it's a simple as that?