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... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech