New messages come in below read ones?

[Guest]

....see if I can explain this, my inbox is sorted by date received. I get a
message, open, read,and close it. Then several minutes later, I look in my
in box, and new messages have come in under the message I already read, they
should be above it. Very anoying because now I have to look closely at
messages in the inbox to see if they are new, can't just look at the unread
ones on top.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

...see if I can explain this, my inbox is sorted by date received. I
get a message, open, read,and close it. Then several minutes later,
I look in my in box, and new messages have come in under the message
I already read, they should be above it. Very anoying because now I
have to look closely at messages in the inbox to see if they are new,
can't just look at the unread ones on top.

Hate to ask a stupid question, but, if you look at the Received time of the
messages that have come in below, is it newer than the ones above it? I
know you think they should be, but what does the data actually show?

 

[Guest]

the times are all in the correct order, the older ones are just showing up
after the newer ones

 

[F.H. Muffman]

the times are all in the correct order, the older ones are just
showing up after the newer ones

Ok, well, if the times are in the correct order, then the messages are
showing up exactly like they should, since the received times of the 'new'
messages is *older* than the recieved time of the message you just read. In
other words, Outlook is working a-ok and the sort order you specified is
working.

Now, the bigger question is why are these messages appearing slow? They
obviously aren't *newer* messages, based on the received time, so, one must
guess that they are coming in from a different provider than the first
message. How many mail servers is outlook configured to talk to? What kind
of servers are they?