php mail problem

[shann]

hi,

My client wrote a mail script to send some info. Most of the mails are taking 6 - 16 hours to receive his users. Where may be the problem and whre I can check at my server.

thanks

[edwardsbc]

This doesn't sound like a PHP problem. What do the raw headers on the emails say about the trip? It should be fairly easy to see in the headers which MTA is causing the hold up.

[shann]

What is MTA please,?, What do I have to look at the header?, How do I see who is holding mail.

Thanks in advance

thanks
Ananthan

[edwardsbc]

MTA is message transport agent. These are the boxes/programs that actually move the mail around, usually via SMTP (simple mail transport protocol).

The headers are exactly that, lines at the beginning of the email which explain where it's from and who's it to, etc. Each MTA adds to the headers as it handles the message. Here is an example:

Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Delivered-To: [removed]@[removed]
Received: from viruswall1.corona.navy.mil (unknown [137.67.32.41])
	by zeus.corona.navy.mil (Postfix) with SMTP id AAEE970F29
	for <[removed]@[removed]>; Fri,  4 Oct 2002 06:40:25 -0700 (PDT)
Received: FROM mail.freshmeat.net BY viruswall1.corona.navy.mil ; Fri Oct 04 06:41:14 2002 -0700
Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.freshmeat.net [127.0.0.1])
	by localhost.freshmeat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 7774A8341F; Fri,  4 Oct 2002 09:36:21 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from freshmeat.net (www4.freshmeat.net [10.2.35.4])
	by mail.freshmeat.net (Postfix) with SMTP
	id 771A18341F; Fri,  4 Oct 2002 09:35:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: [fmII] iftop 0.7 released (Default branch)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
...body of message was here...

You can see that this message originated at mail.freshmeat.net at 9:35EDT and reach my host at 6:40PDT, a five minute trip.

Unfortunately many mail readers hide or delete these headers upon delivery (ie Outlook 2000).

[shann]

Hi,

Thanks for your help.

Can you encode more clearly, I have looked at and I knwo who i sending.

Woud please encode teh route path and who is delatyin, how many hops involving , etc.

Or is any document you can direct me to look.

thansk