Received 4 year old message

[tperachio]

The owner of my company asked me why he received a message that is 4 years old, he did not get it throught the outlook client but through his blackberry, has anyone ever heard of this happening to them?

 

[markdmac]

Now that is what I call latency!

Tell him the message was waiting for the law suits to be settled and to buy a PocketPC that will sync directly with your Exchange Server.

My guess is the sender had a message stuck on an old PC that got plugged back in. He should be asking the sender not you. Your Exchange Server would not be holding a message for that long.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[tperachio]

why would he receive the message from an X employee who does not have a mailbox on our server?

 

[markdmac]

No idea. Did you look at the header information to see where/when it was sent from?

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[tperachio]

Unfortunately the BlackBerry device does not show the headers. or I could not find them.

 

[markdmac]

Was the message not ALSO received on Exchange?

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Zelandakh]

If the email did not have a stamp on it, it can take longer than expected

Sync the BB and check the header in Outlook.

 

[tperachio]

he did not receive it in outlook like all of his olther mail.

 

[markdmac]

I suppose it is possible that blackberry had some glitch on their end. Not enough information to go on to really determine this though.

It is a nice mystery but probably not worth much in the way of your time to track it down. Big question would be did they receive the same message in Outlook 4 years ago? If so then it probably did get stuck on the BB side.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Marcs41]

He could ask the sender if the issue was handled meanwhile ;-)

Marc
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