Receiving Delay

[WelshTeckie]

Hi,

I having been having a problem with mail being delayed in receiving to my single exchange 2003 server, sometimes up to 10 hours. Here is an example of a header:-

Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
Received: from s85444.reedusdesign.com ([83.138.191.218]) by svr1.mycompany.lan with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:15:00 +0200
Received: (qmail 32570 invoked by uid 110); 2 Aug 2007 07:14:54 +0100
Delivered-To: 104-graham@grahamtennant.com
Received: (qmail 32555 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2007 07:14:51 +0100
Received: from athena.hosts.co.uk (85.233.160.20)
by 192.168.1.218 with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Aug 2007 07:14:51 +0100
Received: from [217.69.20.190] (helo=cluster-d.mailcontrol.com)
by athena.hosts.co.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
(Exim 4.66)
(envelope-from <info@currenciesdirect.com>)
id 1IGTxT-0006lm-9T
for info@ims.eu.com; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:14:51 +0100
Received: from rly34d.srv.mailcontrol.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by rly34d.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id l726EWZY027781
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO)
for <info@ims.eu.com>; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:14:47 +0100

All the jumps are within about a minute up untill the last jump where it takes 10 hours. I have checked the MX records and they are fine.

I have also run nslookup bur this does not work, it comes back with "DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds."

Also in nslookup when I enter the static ip it comes back with "110.Red-88-2-165.staticIP.rima-tde.net" isn't it supposed to give me the fqdn or somthing?

Please help?
Can anyone suggest anything?

 

[WelshTeckie]

I have done a few more things today, I have tested the DNS's again and they seem to be fine, I found out I was specifying the static ip as the server not my dns server, and once I had done that it came back with my mx record.

Now I am trying to track emails, is there a way to determine whether a mesage has arrived on the server and not been routed yet or maybe that it still hasn't arrived at the server, untill I can determine this, I am not sure what to try next.

Any ideas?