Out of office reply to arrive hours later?

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Last night I sent two notes to a friend who uses one account for private and work email. The message went out at 6:12 pm. This morning I opened my email and found an out of office reply with the notice that as of yesterday he was in Australia. The message had a timestamp of 2:32 am which I believe is local time. Usually I get out of office replies right after sending out my own message. How can this be? Would this be an ooo-reply created after having received that note or can there be a long delay for other reasons?

Richard

Posted 2018-04-29T05:55:45.557

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1I don't think we can do anything but guess. Maybe the computer was asleep, woke to do some cron job etc, while awake, fetched email & replied. – Tetsujin – 2018-04-29T07:12:55.510

How many hours elapsed between your 6.32pm and this 2.32am? (You said it's local time, but whose?) In terms of the recipient's local time, what does that 2.32am equate to? – roaima – 2018-04-29T08:21:23.337

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