Message arrival order?

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Feb 15 13:57:38 2005

At 12:05 PM 2/15/2005, Paul Williams wrote:
>If examining those shows that messages from particular people are more delayed than others, then perhaps somewhere between classiccmp.org and you a mail server is running greylisting software in an attempt to reject spammers, and forcing classiccmp.org to retry later. (Mind you, in my ISP's case, the greylisting wouldn't delay messages from classiccmp.org more than once a day, regardless of who originally sent them.)

All the Received headers in the thread follow this pattern:

Return-Path: <cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org>
Received: from huey.classiccmp.org (huey.classiccmp.org [209.145.140.36])
        by pc.threedee.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j1F488O30216
        for <jfoust_at_threedee.com>; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:08:08 -0600
Received: from huey.classiccmp.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by huey.classiccmp.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j1ENQP55048904;
        Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:29:34 -0600 (CST)
        (envelope-from cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org)
Received: from ms-smtp-05.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-05-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com
        [65.32.5.135])
        by huey.classiccmp.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j1ENQN4k048898
        for <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:26:24 -0600 (CST)
        (envelope-from rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com)
Received: from eat-me- (161.225.8.67.cfl.rr.com [67.8.225.161])
        by ms-smtp-05.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id
        j1EN28rR023676
        for <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:02:11 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20050214175844.009269b0_at_pop-server.cfl.rr.com>

in other words : sender -> sender's SMTP -> huey.classiccmp.org -> me.

I've noticed that if I click the date column-header in Eudora,
the received messages did re-sort properly. I can make-do with that.

- John
Received on Tue Feb 15 2005 - 13:57:38 GMT