Bigfoot email running slow? Why? How?

I've been using www.bigfoot.com's free email-forwarding service for
about 15 years now, but recently have noticed it that it often seems to
be very slow at relaying emails to me 'real' email address (as far as I
can see, anyway. Is anybody else experiencing this?

I have to confess I don't really understand email headers, but AFAICS in
the example appended below (which took 2 days to reach me at my real
ntlworld.com address), Bigfoot seems to be at fault - am I right?

If so I'm curious what "BFLITEMAIL" is all about - because I use the
Bigfoot's free-for-life service, are my emails deliberately going
through a 'lite' substandard server?

Would appreciate any comments or advice (think it may be time to buy
myself a domain name and do things properly...!)

Thanks
David

Headers of a sample "slow" email!:


Return-Path:
Received: from aamta05-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35])
by mta03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP
id
<20050618155010.VVEV20644.mta03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta05-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>
for ;
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:50:10 +0100
Received: from bigfoot.com ([210.109.98.21])
by aamta05-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP
id
<20050618155010.BTCX13063.aamta05-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@bigfoot.com>
for ;
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:50:10 +0100
Received: from bigfoot.com ([211.115.216.225])
by BFLITEMAIL-KR1.bigfoot.com (LiteMail v3.03(BFLITEMAIL-KR1)) with
SMTP id 0506172255_BFLITEMAIL-KR1_407107_56108833;
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:10:11 -0500 EST
Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net ([212.159.14.131])
by BFLITEMAIL-KR2.bigfoot.com (LiteMail v3.03(BFLITEMAIL-KR2)) with
SMTP id 0506161322_BFLITEMAIL-KR2_441749_53433511;
Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:28:07 -0500 EST
Received: from [81.174.225.173] (helo=perdata.per.local)
by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1DiwT5-0000pk-Js
for david.******@bigfoot.com; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:39:49 +0100
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Subject: RE: test
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:39:44 +0100
Message-ID: <65DBB8CD13A98F46944D0691241AE44C2BC744@perdata.per.local>
thread-index: AcVhYvYkiBvvsiRxQ7WHLJhcm+D1DQRJkb1Q
From: "Chris *****"
To: "David ******"

Re: Bigfoot email running slow? Why? How?

Lobster writes:

> I've been using www.bigfoot.com's free email-forwarding service for
> about 15 years now, but recently have noticed it that it often seems
> to be very slow at relaying emails to me 'real' email address (as far
> as I can see, anyway. Is anybody else experiencing this?
>
> I have to confess I don't really understand email headers, but AFAICS
> in the example appended below (which took 2 days to reach me at my
> real ntlworld.com address), Bigfoot seems to be at fault - am I right?
>
> If so I'm curious what "BFLITEMAIL" is all about - because I use the
> Bigfoot's free-for-life service, are my emails deliberately going
> through a 'lite' substandard server?
>
> Would appreciate any comments or advice (think it may be time to buy
> myself a domain name and do things properly...!)
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> Headers of a sample "slow" email!:
>
>

> Received: from bigfoot.com ([210.109.98.21])
> by aamta05-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP
> id
> <20050618155010.BTCX13063.aamta05-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@bigfoot.com>
> for ;
> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:50:10 +0100
> Received: from bigfoot.com ([211.115.216.225])
> by BFLITEMAIL-KR1.bigfoot.com (LiteMail v3.03(BFLITEMAIL-KR1))
> with SMTP id 0506172255_BFLITEMAIL-KR1_407107_56108833;
> Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:10:11 -0500 EST
> Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net ([212.159.14.131])
> by BFLITEMAIL-KR2.bigfoot.com (LiteMail v3.03(BFLITEMAIL-KR2))
> with SMTP id 0506161322_BFLITEMAIL-KR2_441749_53433511;
> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:28:07 -0500 EST
> Received: from [81.174.225.173] (helo=perdata.per.local)
> by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1DiwT5-0000pk-Js
> for david.******@bigfoot.com; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:39:49 +0100

It is bigfoot or ntlworld.com's MXes (aamta05-winn.ispmail.ntl.com here)
are slow to accept mail.

There is somewhat strange relay BFLITEMAIL-KR2.bigfoot.com => BFLITEMAIL-KR1.bigfoot.com.
This inside of bigfoot already was taken 10 hours to deliver. (But its
is not possible to know if BFLITEMAIL-KR2.bigfoot.com is first tried deliver mail
directly ntlworld.com and then after certain time moved mail to other
bigfoot.com's outgoing mail relay. )

/ Kari Hurtta