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forwarding delays
I have an account at outlook.live.com, and I have instructed it to forward all e-mails from there to another account. That forwarding happens 7-8 hours later. ALWAYS. Why? How do I make the forwarding happen more promptly?
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is the forwarding rule on the web or in desktop Outlook?
Forwarding is specified on the web. Does that make a difference?
Not a fix, just a way to maybe find out where the hang up is.
Open one of the forwarded emails and look at the Message Header.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-internet-message-headers-in-outlook-cd039382-dc6e-4264-ac74-c048563d212cYou should see the path the email took and date/times on each server hop.
The Microsoft tool at https://mha.azurewebsites.net/ can help you see the hops more clearly.
Interestingly, these delays were happening for several weeks. Quite suddenly, it's decided to forward immediately. I didn't change anything. I think the Microsoft fixit trolls are busy.
Yes that happens to me frequently with clients calling in with weird issues, they magically go away when I remote in to help. I tell them "you threatened it to work by calling in for help" Lol. I edited my comment as it didn't make sense.
