Old e-mails appearing months later.
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Old e-mails appearing months later.
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I have had two e-mails appear in my in box this week which where sent to me in January, today being April I just wondered where they might of been one was a copy the other I have never seen before. As a clue they both have the same subject line. I am with Virgin/NTL.
I have had two e-mails appear in my in box this week which where sent to me in January, today being April I just wondered where they might of been one was a copy the other I have never seen before. As a clue they both have the same subject line. I am with Virgin/NTL.
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From: Cambridge, England, EU
Could also have been in a slightly broken data structure in a server that got restarted - something like that could push out batches of duplicates months later. There might or might not be clues in the Received header chain.
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I've had that happen a few times to me and a couple of my customers.
Every time it seems to have been a glitch with an IMAP server (never POP).
PIPEX seemed to be especially prone to it a couple of years ago. It was damned disturbing when a few hundred messages I thought were safely deleted suddenly downloaded again
My guess would be a broken server thats been partially restored from a backup.
Were you using IMAP mail?
Every time it seems to have been a glitch with an IMAP server (never POP).
PIPEX seemed to be especially prone to it a couple of years ago. It was damned disturbing when a few hundred messages I thought were safely deleted suddenly downloaded again
My guess would be a broken server thats been partially restored from a backup.
Were you using IMAP mail?
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I had a similar occurrence a while back when Virgin moved from their own email system to gmail - dozens of my Sent items came back to my inbox. I think that was only items sent via the web client, rather than my Outlook client.
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Thanks for the replies. The mails were sent on the correct date as they were both related to events so I don't think it was anything to do with the senders computers.
My mail goes through a (POP).
All I can think is it was a Virgin system fault.
My mail goes through a (POP).
All I can think is it was a Virgin system fault.
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TD: anyone here had SMS's arrving up to 12 hours after sent from a phone to another ?
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TD: anyone here had SMS's arrving up to 12 hours after sent from a phone to another ?
Also I use a local VOIP service, like Skype, which allows me to type a SMS on the computer keyboard, instead of farting about with all those silly little mobile phone keys, where 1 key is used for 3 or 4 characters, then I just 'send' to a mobile phone number, but it isn't instantaneous and replies are sent to the computer, not back to a mobile phone, so it isn't very convenient if you want a reply.
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Yes.
Also I use a local VOIP service, like Skype, which allows me to type a SMS on the computer keyboard, instead of farting about with all those silly little mobile phone keys, where 1 key is used for 3 or 4 characters, then I just 'send' to a mobile phone number, but it isn't instantaneous and replies are sent to the computer, not back to a mobile phone, so it isn't very convenient if you want a reply.
Also I use a local VOIP service, like Skype, which allows me to type a SMS on the computer keyboard, instead of farting about with all those silly little mobile phone keys, where 1 key is used for 3 or 4 characters, then I just 'send' to a mobile phone number, but it isn't instantaneous and replies are sent to the computer, not back to a mobile phone, so it isn't very convenient if you want a reply.
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I've had an e-mail after 2 YEARS once. I was puzzled by why that person sent me an email about a subject that was finished years earlier, until I saw the sent date in the header.
Guess some server emptied its cache or something... (It was on my POP3-account with my ISP but the mail originated from Hotmail)
Guess some server emptied its cache or something... (It was on my POP3-account with my ISP but the mail originated from Hotmail)
