Long delivery time on emails

Why do some emails take a long time to deliver? While others come to your inbox instatntionously. I use LiveMail (new Hotmail).

Does it have to do with the other person's server or something?

 

What about when someone sends you an email? None of my emails had attachments. Blockbuster and Paypal go to my inbox instantanously, but the email my church minister sent me took 24 hours. I think there could be a lag on his server or ISP.

Could it be that my email has to go through the hotmail server and be forwarded to the live mail server?

Maybe George Bush is reading them ;-)

 

Also a gmail user.

Is your minister using an online email or a company email ? he may be using an exchange server with delays on send and recieves. This would only normally be around 15 minutes at the most not 24 hours though.

Matt

 

His email address is company, it's the same domain as the website.

 

I have a gmail account too. Hotmail lets me us MS Outlook with it for free. I've had the email address for serveral years.

I also have yahoo, aol, UT-knoxville (UTK), Ten-Nash, juno, charter emails as well.

That's eight email address

 

Now that I think about it. If you use softwar like Outlook, it can take longer, especially if the ISP is different.

For example, It took me a long time to figure out how to get Juno to work with Outlook on my University of TN email. I had to guess the port number, and set it up to reply to my juno account. Now, I use the free juno for when I am traveling.

 

It may be the domain host's server, maybe thier server gets bogged down.

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I've seen UTK's server take several days to send an email to my hotmail account. After that, I opted to have my UTK friends email me to my UTK address because it saved time.