It is very possible that any two emails sent to a single email address
might be delivered through different mail processes (MX hosts) and/or
Domain Name Servers (NS) lookups.  Likewise, the time-of-day could be a
factor in the preceeding PLUS the non-availability of file (AFS, NFS)
and/or security/authorization servers.

I can tell you with a list of 4000+ userids on 1800+ hosts, mail delivery
IS unpredictable, especially for certain hosts.

If were all so simple, then they wouldn't need "us" and I'd be out of a
job ;-)

/Pete

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