On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:30:09 EDT, "John L. Mottl" <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> I monitor both the digests and regular mail.  Today I received a posting=
>  that was dated July 1, 2000.  I looked to find it in the archives, and it=
>  was there in July.   So this message spent a month getting to me in the=
>  same room as the servers sit in.  I have been getting some complainants=
>  from end users that they are missing mail, but attributed that to 1) the=
>  Internet itself, 2) the end users themselves <G>.   Now I wonder...
>
> Any suggestions?

Look at all the Received: headers in the message, and see which server
had it (they should all have date/time stamps).

Also, make sure to rule out that the originating system doesn't have its
system clock set a month off - I once found a system that was exactly
2 minutes and 365 days off....

Also, every once in a while, a mail server will crash, and the backup tape
that gets restored has old mail that then gets re-processed...
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech