matt@gol.com (Matthew Endo) wrote in message: news:<1g895o9.1g08tjv2cjao6N@yahoobb219000172034.bbtec.net>...
> Dave Fossett <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

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