Does anyone know why some of my mail in my inbox comes at different times? Ex. I will open my mail and there will be new messages from like 4 hours ago, even though I checked then and there was nothing. Sometimes my inbox will have messages from yesterday, even though I have sent/recieved like 7 times since.
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First, the timestamp on an email is almost meaningless unless you have specific knowledge of its accuracy.chrisleeroth said:
Second, email is not necessarily instantaneous. Messages can be delayed for any of several reasons.
Third, you are using Entourage.
Electronic voodoo - I've experimented with sending emails from my office to my .mac address and my earthlink address at the same time - sometime the .mac comes in faster, sometimes earthlink does - it's a strange thing. My guess is that sometimes emails float around in servers backed up in a line of sorts until they can be delivered. Sometimes it's the senders ISP other times its the recipients. It's not an Entourage only thing - it happens with Apple's mail program as well.