Interesting Hotmail issue

[GUJUm0deL]

I know this is impossible, but it just happened to me so i'm posting here. I have an Hotmail account, I just got a message from someone this evening (02/18) but the strange part is that the delivery date said 02/18, but the sent date was 02/19, so basically I got the e-mail before it was even written. How is that possible??

This is what Hotmail recorded:

Received: from mail.thisismyserver.net ([209.183.220.8]) by mc10-f41.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:12:34 -0800
Received: (qmail 32406 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2004 01:54:58 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ignatius) (66.149.108.202) by mail.thisismyserver.net with SMTP; 19 Feb 2004 01:54:58 -0000


Any ideas??


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[cmeagan656]

The sender's mail server is using GMT for their time
(-0000). Since you're showing -0800 either you are on the west coast of North America or the mail server is using PST for their time.

Cheers.

 

[zbnet]

Either that, or it slipped back through a freak wormhole in the space/time continuum!

Seriously, though, email headers are only as good as the clocks on the servers that wrote them. When clocks aren't synchronised you sometimes see messages jumping through time when they get passed from one server to another.

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Thanks for clearing this up guys. So it doesn't matter where the persons PC (where the e-mail derived from, and the e-mail received) were. Like PC that sent the e-mail was in NJ, and the PC that got the e-mail was in NY, it only matters where the server was, is that right?

Thanks.


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[cmeagan656]

Either where the servers are, or how the time was synched on the servers. A server in NJ or NY can still have their time synched for any time zone in the world.

Cheers.