Email delays in receiving up to several minutes

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1

Below is a part of the email source. At the beginning and the end of the paste are time signatures differing in about 8 minutes.

  • 09:04:34 -0700 (PDT)
  • 09:12:04 -0700 (PDT)

It is unlikely a difference in times on the servers. The email was told (by phone) to be sent and the reception had been delayed. Can anybody guess the source of the delay, please?

Received: by mail-pf1-f180.google.com with SMTP id o129so880300pfb.1
        for <user.name@e.email>; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=gmail.com; s=20161025;
        h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to;
        bh=rbWFO4OOPWEPg1N+dBLHgVFgb+1yUjEtr+9QwG15Eqs=;
        b=LTBXsxq3QBK0Mly2PboXHVNfYRBqgfmkNbYRJmM24pVdjJw6ZIQzHyYPMREMymdYnQ
         9aQD4oDI7dwLLxg4aMwcLiZn+j8mECamzzuyaKoM3xFhrgKc6kSD+GtKfI8SDSUcjnz7
         dJHi4alPVFv7H8DERosDkyLJArGanbfFhuCQrMRPJbSfAXnDU/B1r4BqKqLbhd6D5w93
         hOglDX7hF5h+0o3vldCypIewymbwbITmJzz6Gfokvy3ilHFg0j9+dxaPC6SZQIL7l4Ga
         1YxUr0WyuAjBiRS+qNBgMiicG2HqNWqrnSkSMzsYEQl7Uqgr/qHvwXDOMXg/+q7WRfPI
         yl5w==
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=1e100.net; s=20161025;
        h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to;
        bh=rbWFO4OOPWEPg1N+dBLHgVFgb+1yUjEtr+9QwG15Eqs=;
        b=gnR1cO/HWQJs3i7nlVHYIGjEywjGqQ3tHTmDR0Da6trA85Wqo0h58mtYb+Lf2unW30
         k8ZY1ln7N/aUta+LoOrg/rorQ1f7AooB92xsg0+jT8kBEcWl6wrIea60vJADqleu+QuV
         2HdfjyumV9AWZpwGFumd54/8HEqLXdX5NKYnE+kT+sVTQiDVs81BtpMXlTbL6UKK6LbO
         fSeZgtprqfKZgrz9RgzGEhUysOmCgUA6VAQL91XPXtAOGjpyx3GpPikZbEugnF1cxlbH
         mk20vCMf3J7cdnYvIogbIrllY06+9PiMGlmXtHAYzBcEamDaJAPqXZ7zWMv+x7zSsqMF
         mNeQ==
X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530LaSAFP1dtZhhvgSyzcEXEsHRd0LaLO1opl4+UO9VxoChZAdx3
	CxJLoJe1H/5C+mN8ESFqjohSu/vqHFgdOAxOwfbveKVerlb/UQ==
X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxFPYm7uSoKeGhZqvKCY+dy4YmvPOhWmOqe0dDugV6jrsDoUVdBJ2Qie9dmKstHnCw/7GU+Hg4RypfKpG09eYE=
X-Received: by 2002:a05:6e02:5c7:: with SMTP id l7mr11610205ils.43.1603728274555;
 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:04:34 -0700 (PDT)

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2

I have the same problem, but not several minutes but several tens of minutes :frowning:

3

Maybe greylisting ?

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4

Shouldn’t be all the delivery attempts listed in the header?

Unless listed, the greylisting cannot be traced and it seems that the email had been just delayed on the receiving server.

5

Nope, greylisting operates at server level, you won’t find any info of attempts unless you can access the smtp servers logs.

Also, although many people consider email as a reliable service, there is no technical guarantee for delivery delay, or even that the message will be delivered at all.