OpenNTF Mail Template - Feature Request: message 'flight time'
Hi; first post and it's a feature request!
I have tried a couple of times to extract the information in the array of 'Received' fields which are part of email docs constructed by the SMTP receiver - these appear (when you look at the document properties) to break down the content of the server list part of the SMTP header, in such a way that the fairly skilled reader can work out the time of sending & receipt, and if the message dawdled anywhere along the way.
This information used to be important, and then got less so as email transfer speeds picked up: it is now becoming important again as servers which filter mails may be massively clogged up, and it has a considerable use outside of the US/Europe/Japan/Aus territories: the rest of the world often suffers from bottlenecks.
Ideally, I would like a pop-up dialog in response to an action item which shows:
- date, time & time zone of sending
- date, time & time zone of receipt by local server
- number of 'hops'
- longest delay (and which hop was responsible)
- total 'flight time'
This would have saved me a huge kicking in one place where a team of 6 were sent an invite, and 5 of the 6 got it within 1 minute: the 6th got it 4 hours later. It turned out after flight time analysis that the delay was 4 hops away... in a Microsoft.com border router!