Hotmail takes over 5 DAYS to deliver mail (Outlook Express problem?)

[Mr. Clean]

Actually as the server machine is in the same room as my Sister's
computer, I pressed the send button in MSN8 and saw the disk light up
almost straight away on the server machine. So this begs the question
of whether OE users are given different servers to send/interact with
mail than MSN8 users, or whether it is just the time of day that I
have used Hotmail, as I have not experienced this slowdown.

Well it actually depends upon your HM account as different HM accounts
may have different servers. They know not if it is a OE accessed account
and don't care. The DAV stuff is done the same way in browser account
access as it is in OE account access.

Yes, HM uses WebDAV in it's browser access, too.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Well it actually depends upon your HM account as different HM accounts
may have different servers. They know not if it is a OE accessed account
and don't care. The DAV stuff is done the same way in browser account
access as it is in OE account access.

And you know this how? To me at least it seems that a hotmail account
is not tied down to specific servers, you connect to a specific server
when connecting to www.hotmail.com or whatever server MSN8/OE uses.
Certainly www.hotmail.com has several A records pointing to it, and I
am sure that when sending mail it goes through different random
servers bellonging to Hotmail until it gets to the recipient.

Yes, HM uses WebDAV in it's browser access, too.

No it doesn't. If you send a message from the Web interface you can
see that it is being send via HTTP, according to received headers in
the message headers. DAV, whatever this is, seems to be used when
sending/receiving mail using Hotmail via OE/MSN8 or other products
that can receive mail using Hotmail (Outlook 2002 for example, to
bring this on topic with discussions in the Outlook group).

Andrew.

 

[Mr. Clean]

And you know this how? To me at least it seems that a hotmail account
is not tied down to specific servers, you connect to a specific server
when connecting to www.hotmail.com or whatever server MSN8/OE uses.
Certainly www.hotmail.com has several A records pointing to it, and I
am sure that when sending mail it goes through different random
servers bellonging to Hotmail until it gets to the recipient.

Because in the different accounts that I have I get the SAME server for
each account for each access and have since obtaining these accounts
several years ago.

No it doesn't. If you send a message from the Web interface you can
see that it is being send via HTTP, according to received headers in
the message headers. DAV, whatever this is, seems to be used when
sending/receiving mail using Hotmail via OE/MSN8 or other products
that can receive mail using Hotmail (Outlook 2002 for example, to
bring this on topic with discussions in the Outlook group).

Behind the scenes it uses the same methods. OE uses HTTPMail for WebDAV
but in sending it does a HTTP POST directly to the sendmsg folder on the
HM account you are sending from. I have written code that does that
using XMLHTTP. I can send messages via my HM accounts and not even be
using a browser. Using HM from the browser POSTS the item to a different
URL but it works the same, you just have to pay attention to the hidden
form variables.