Is it me or is the list going NUTS? (Old messages are appearing new)

[Ed Greshko]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Fri, 11/6/09, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
>> Subject: Re: Is it me or is the list going NUTS? (Old messages are appearing new)
>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:43 PM
>> On 11/07/2009 03:28 AM, Antonio
>> Olivares wrote:
>>     
>>> Dear fellow fedora users,
>>>
>>> Is it me or is the list going NUTS?, ie., the thread
>>>       
>> "Should I go 64 bit Fedora" just came in from the Original
>> poster, wheras I have seen many replies already to this
>> thread.  Is something wrong with the dates, I have
>> November 6, 2009 and this thread message was sent November
>> 2.
>>     
>>> May I ask what is happenning here?
>>> I post a message and it appears much much later :(,
>>>       
>> Did you receive them today, or are they just being marked
>> as "new" even though they have been sent (and received)
>> several days ago?
>>     
> I have just received this one today, when yesterday or two/three days before I have read replies to this very question.  Which makes *me* wonder am I in the present, past, or in the future?
>
> I am feeling so out of place, that even in fedora-test-list, a message I have sent two to three days ago, just came in to my mail box and a reply also came in and since I am out of my testing computer replying to that message would do me no good.
>   
>> The latter is one of the ways how thunderbird-3.x (or
>> may-be dovecot, I am not sure who's to blame) corrupts mail
>> folder indices for me. I receive mails, but the are
>> marked/tagged differently some time later.
>>
>> Very funny, when thunderbird tags just received,
>> fresh/unread mails as "read" or tags very old mails as
>> "unread" ;)
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks Ralf for replying.  I hope others might see some weirdness with respect to the incoming messages.
>
>   
I am not seeing any weirdness with regards to delivery times.....

Are you using the web interface to yahoo?   I think if you were to use
the pop to access your email you may be able to examine the headers to
determine where the delay was.  Otherwise it is almost impossible.

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