e-mail slow receiving

[jatmart]

My wife and I are both experiencing major issues with receipt of our e-mail. I can send one to her one minute and she will receive it immediately and then send another and she gets it the next day. She uses entourage and I use mail. At first I thought it was entourage, but I have several e-mails sent to me that take five hours to receive. For me it is not a big issue, but my wife relies on quick communication for her business. Please help.
Thanks.

 

[Jercro]

I have the same problem between sending mail from mail.eaglecom.net to a mac email address. Takes forever 6 to 24 hours. Occassionally it will go through both ways almost instantaniously, but most time takes hours to get to the mac.com email address. And it is on the mac.com end of the transfer.
I read that at sometime Mac.com uses a spam blocker that can block some email addresses, even when they are in the address book. Not sure if that is the problem or if something else is holding up these emails. Sure need to find a fix anyhow. Really aggrivating.

 

[MisterMe]

Once you press the "Send" button, it doesn't matter which email client you use. You message is on its way and out of your control. It is at the mercy of your ISP and the various servers along the away between your computer and your ISP's mail server and between your ISP's mail server and your recipient's mail server. Between you and your recipient, the only control that you have is your choice of mail provider or ISP. Sometimes you have a choice; sometimes you don't. Just this past week, I emailed my colleague across the hall. I still don't know if he has received my message. We are both restricted to our firm's Exchange server. I have seen it take months for large messages to get to their destinations via AOL.

You said nothing about your ISP, your email accounts, or their capacity limits. Avoid sending large files via email. If you have a choice of ISP, investigate the reliability of your options. If you are using Exchange or IMAP, make sure that you dson't exceed your capacity allocation. This is particularly important if you keep your mail on a POP3 server.

 

[Jercro]

I know all that and expect most users do, but still doesn't tell me why some messages get hung up going to the mac.com email server. They get sent from my server with no problem, but don't reach the mac.com server for long time. And neither server mailbox is overloaded and it doesn't seem to matter whether it is a large message or nothing execpt the email address and a subject line with no body. Up until the last month everything seemed to be fine. An occassional glitch, but mostly the emails would go through in a few minutes if not just seconds. My ISP says it is because the mac.com email server only checks for incoming mail every hour or so rather than constantly, but if that were the case, why would some go through instantaniously and the next take 12 hours. And the only thing showing in the headers or on a traceroute are routers, no mail forwarding.