Timeline for Email received in application: use sent date or received date?
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| Oct 17, 2016 at 20:07 | comment | added | user8889 | You might be surprised, actually. Bounces can and do happen. Mail servers will generally retry a send over a specific period of time (whatever the server itself is configured for) and will report a non-delivery after that time. That can be a day, sometimes more, depending on how servers are configured. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 19:32 | comment | added | mtv.vac | Sure but we're not talking about correspondence being physically shipped. There should never be an instance in which it takes days for an email to reach its destination. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | user8889 | Fair point, but in some businesses the sent date matters more than the received date. (For instance, sometimes, postmarking correspondence or a bill can count as the canonical date, even if it's received after the fact.) | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 17:50 | history | answered | mtv.vac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |