Delays sending email to mobile phone?
Dave Fossett
phone, it is delayed by a few hours about half the time, and sometimes never
gets delivered (returning as undeliverable exactly 24 hours later). Is this
common?
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Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
Matthew Endo
> I find that when I send email from my PC to my wife's (Vodafone) mobile
> phone, it is delayed by a few hours about half the time, and sometimes never
> gets delivered (returning as undeliverable exactly 24 hours later). Is this
> common?
Yep, this is common with Vodafone. It is quite annoying. What do you
expect from an ISP who unilaterally changes the e-mail addresses of ALL
their customers? (Remember the good old short addresses?)
I think Brett can tell you more about their lack of regard for other
internet standards.
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Matt
ma...@gol.com
Michael Cash
<re...@via.newsgroup> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>I find that when I send email from my PC to my wife's (Vodafone) mobile
>phone, it is delayed by a few hours about half the time, and sometimes never
>gets delivered (returning as undeliverable exactly 24 hours later). Is this
>common?
If you use the Skymail option instead of Longmail, yes.
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Michael Cash
"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."
Dr. Howard Sprague
Dean of Admissions
Mount Pilot College
Brett Robson
Don't get me started!!!!!
.
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someone who wants junk mail
in...@jpat.jp
Rafael Caetano
AFAIK it's not an issue of internet standards. Email is asynchronous,
there's no requirement that it reaches the destination quickly, or at
all.
Of course you can still say that Vodafone is crappy, since other mail
servers usually deliver emails instantenously or within minutes.
Rafael Caetano
Dave Fossett
> AFAIK it's not an issue of internet standards. Email is asynchronous,
> there's no requirement that it reaches the destination quickly, or at
> all.
>
> Of course you can still say that Vodafone is crappy, since other mail
> servers usually deliver emails instantenously or within minutes.
OK. So is this unique to Vodafone, then? If so, it looks like they will be
losing a customer.
And where on earth does the email go that it takes several hours to reach
its destination?
Ryan Ginstrom
"Dave Fossett" <re...@via.newsgroup> wrote in message
news:UzMRb.22$Ja...@news1.dion.ne.jp...
> And where on earth does the email go that it takes several hours to reach
> its destination?
My guess would be: On the queue of some old Commodore 64 set up as a mail
router.
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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
Declan Murphy
Ahh, nostalgia.
I use NTT Docomo, and as with Vodafone quite a few messages don't turn
up for a few hours (16 in one case). Usually I'll get a message from
she-who-owns-the-remote either instantaneously, or, when it gets stuck
in the Commodore 64 queue, it arrives together with a cc copy of an
email from one my staff - as though the email bumped it along.
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I am not who I think I am
I am not who you think I am
I am who I think you think I am
...or some such shite.
Brett Robson
I dont have any problem but that might be because I joined in Aichi and use the
Chubu mail server.
Elbow
usually within a minute.
what I want to know is how the fcuk has someone found my address to send me
spam????
Anyone know how they get hold of it?
Its only 1 month old (my contract)
Bryan Parker
> Rafael Caetano wrote:
>
>> AFAIK it's not an issue of internet standards. Email is
>> asynchronous, there's no requirement that it reaches the
>> destination quickly, or at all.
>>
>> Of course you can still say that Vodafone is crappy,
>> since other mail servers usually deliver emails
>> instantenously or within minutes.
>
> OK. So is this unique to Vodafone, then?
No. Keitai mail arriving up to 3 DAYS late is why Docomo
lost this customer.
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Bryan
Bryan Parker
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
>> "Dave Fossett" <re...@via.newsgroup> wrote in message
>> news:UzMRb.22$Ja...@news1.dion.ne.jp...
>>
>>> And where on earth does the email go that it takes
>>> several hours to reach its destination?
>>
>> My guess would be: On the queue of some old Commodore 64
>> set up as a mail router.
>
> Ahh, nostalgia.
>
> I use NTT Docomo, and as with Vodafone quite a few
> messages don't turn up for a few hours (16 in one case).
> Usually I'll get a message from she-who-owns-the-remote
> either instantaneously, or, when it gets stuck in the
> Commodore 64 queue, it arrives together with a cc copy of
> an email from one my staff - as though the email bumped
> it along.
I know exactly what you're talking about and I think you
could have left the "as though" part of your reply out.
Bryan Parker
Have you changed your address since getting it assigned to
you?
Is the spam being sent to your keitai mail address?
Have you signed up for any of the faeggy ring tone services
or online gaytai games?
Bryan Parker
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:01:12 +0900, "Dave Fossett"
> <re...@via.newsgroup> brought down from the Mount tablets
> inscribed:
>
>> I find that when I send email from my PC to my wife's
>> (Vodafone) mobile phone, it is delayed by a few hours
>> about half the time, and sometimes never gets delivered
>> (returning as undeliverable exactly 24 hours later). Is
>> this common?
>
> If you use the Skymail option instead of Longmail, yes.
Uhhh, I hope that was s'posed to be a funny.
When I send mail from my GOL account to a J-Phone it arrives
within seconds. Using free online Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.
accounts is a totally different story.
Brett Robson
Spammers use dictionary attacks to guess email addresses. Someone with the
address keiko_suzuki or daisuke_tanaka would be guarranteed to get a lot of
spam. My address is far too easy to guess.
There is a fairly good chance there are insiders in the mobile phone company
selling email addresses, the money involved would be considerable.
The mobile phone companies don't care because the spam is for sites that are
accessed via your phone, making them money for nothing.
Elbow
"Bryan Parker" <puntspe...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bv8dem$rbe$1...@nnrp.gol.com...
> Elbow wrote:
> > mine arrive on time
> > usually within a minute.
> > what I want to know is how the fcuk has someone found my
> > address to send me spam????
> > Anyone know how they get hold of it?
> > Its only 1 month old (my contract)
>
> Have you changed your address since getting it assigned to
> you?
No
> Is the spam being sent to your keitai mail address?
Yes
> Have you signed up for any of the faeggy ring tone services
> or online gaytai games?
No, only registered to Japan Times and have since unregistered.
>
>
Bryan Parker
> "Bryan Parker" <puntspe...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:bv8dem$rbe$1...@nnrp.gol.com...
>> Elbow wrote:
>>> mine arrive on time
>>> usually within a minute.
>
>
>>> what I want to know is how the fcuk has someone found my
>>> address to send me spam????
>>> Anyone know how they get hold of it?
>>> Its only 1 month old (my contract)
>>
>> Have you changed your address since getting it assigned
>> to you?
> No
You might consider changing that.
I've gotta J-SH53, and to change my email addy I press
F>8>1>5 select 1-"Mail Address", the phone connects to the
interweb and "オリジナルメ-ル設定" appears. Click> enter
your PIN, and you can probably take it from there.
>> Is the spam being sent to your keitai mail address?
> Yes
>> Have you signed up for any of the faeggy ring tone
>> services or online gaytai games?
> No, only registered to Japan Times and have since
> unregistered.
And that probably pissed them off JUST enough to... Nah,
they wouldn't do something like that.
The only spam I get to my keitai these days is Skymail
garbage sent to my keitai number (and of course, the daily
gay porn sha-mail stuff that Mike and Brett send me).
--
Bryan
Bryan Parker
Don't know how I lost that "F".