[fpc-pascal] Mail reception order

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:45:37 +0100
Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> It was suggested that we should look at the mail headers when the mails
> arrived in a strange order. Here is an example:
> 
> ========= Mail 1:
> Delivered-To: (...)@gmail.com
> Received: by 10.140.91.161 with SMTP id z30csp56304qgd;
>         Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:00:33 -0800 (PST)
> X-Received: by 10.180.98.71 with SMTP id eg7mr1384013wib.31.1393317956616;
>         Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:45:56 -0800 (PST)
> Return-Path: <fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org>
> Received: from freepascal.dfmk.hu (freepascal.dfmk.hu. [193.224.143.39])
>         by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
> fy2si7547187wib.56.2014.02.25.00.45.55
>         for <multiple recipients>;
>         Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:45:56 -0800 (PST)

It means the mail was received by mx.google.com and then
delayed by 1:15h by Google's internal servers (10.* is intranet).

 
> ========= Mail 2:
> Delivered-To: (...)@gmail.com
> Received: by 10.140.91.161 with SMTP id z30csp61355qgd;
>         Tue, 25 Feb 2014 03:23:41 -0800 (PST)
> X-Received: by 10.15.74.130 with SMTP id j2mr5523eey.116.1393316139032;
>         Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:15:39 -0800 (PST)
> Return-Path: <fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org>
> Received: from freepascal.dfmk.hu (freepascal.dfmk.hu. [193.224.143.39])
>         by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
> a41si41401169eef.71.2014.02.25.00.15.36
>         for <multiple recipients>;
>         Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:15:39 -0800 (PST)

Same here. This time Google delayed it more than 3h.

 
> I only copied the first headers because I believe they are enough to get an
> idea of what is going on. IIUC, this is happening inside Google's systems.
> Am I correct?

Yes, according to their own log entries.

> If so, I should probably ask Google what is going on. I know:
> I don't have much chances of getting an answer.
> 
> BTW, I don't know what the X-Received header means.

Mattias