Webmail server took 20 days to deliver an email!

[aos101]

As the title says, I got an email today from Justin which was sent on 5th October. It took just over 20 days to make its way through the webmail server to the server this site is on:

Received: from webmail1.freedom2surf.net (i-194-106-33-239.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.239])
	by viper.xssl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9PEHXiX031269
	for <email@address>; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:17:33 +0100
Received: from webmail1.freedom2surf.net (i-194-106-33-239 [127.0.0.1])
	by webmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA23C2281C4
	for <email@address>; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:17:34 +0100 (BST)
Received: (from apache@localhost)
	by webmail1.freedom2surf.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id k95ED05F000341
	for email@address; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:13:00 +0100
X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.freedom2surf.net: apache set sender to email@address using -f

How is email waiting that long on the webmail server to be sent? Its just as well it wasn't anything urgent...

[wfnuk]

Originally Posted by aos101

How is email waiting that long on the webmail server to be sent? Its just as well it wasn't anything urgent...

So I shouldn't give up hope (yet!) of actually receiving several 'missing' e-mails from about 3 weeks ago?

[aos101]

Originally Posted by wfnuk

So I shouldn't give up hope (yet!) of actually receiving several 'missing' e-mails from about 3 weeks ago?

Well this was an email sent from the webmail server, and that's a different server to those that receive email and scan them for viruses/spam. I wouldn't think emails on the receiving servers would hang around that long.

[PaulBM]

Received: from web1.freedom2surf.net (i-194-106-33-43 [127.0.0.1])
	by web1.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k9Q0938Q026260
	for <paulbm@xxxxx.xxx>; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:02:33 +0100
Received: (from www@localhost)
	by web1.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id k9CMYiDx011013;
	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:34:44 +0100

14days!

This is an email that my website sends out every other day to me, it has an attachment of all my db tables. I received 4 today, from the 12th, 14th, 16th and 18th of October. So it appears the 20th, 22nd and 24th are still rattling around somewhere in F2S.