Comments on: Email Delivery Delay Using Gmail

By: Voice of Reason

Voice of Reason — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:25:55 +0000

Seriously people? It’s a FREE email account. You get what you pay for. Start paying for Yahoo or Hotmail “premium” services, you’ll get the same delays for the same reasons

If it’s soooo important & urgent, fax it or pick up the phone. Man, what a spoiled generation we have.

You also have to take into consideration that Gmail is relaying email from the server you pop mail from and out to the smtp server. You;re lucky you can still do mail forwarding and popping.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:27:17 +0000

This is completely retarded. I sat around waiting for an important email for almost an hour, while i was waiting I came across this page. I just assumed when I “checked my inbox” in google and impatiently clicked Refresh I was checking all my accounts. I followed your tip and instantly it downloaded all the emails I had been waiting for. Thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:18:00 +0000

Hi bottlecap,

I would like to give you an update as well. Set aside the message that it was sent to my gmail account at 4:55 PM PST and arrived at the inbox at 6:09. Take a load of this, three other emails. One sent at 3:27PM PST, another sent at 4:40PM PST, and 5:15PM PST. The time the emails arrived at my Gmail inbox: 6:17PM PST. I don’t like it at all, fortunately, these were testing emails, what if they were important / urgent / emergency or from my work? Big trouble. I really hoped that the GMail development team / engineers should look into these blogs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:34:00 +0000

I’ve been having the same problems. Seemed like whatever emails that sent from Yahoo.com got delayed. Happened several times for me. Ebay.com, okay, YouTube.com, okay. For whatever reasons, always delayed for emails from Yahoo.com … What can we do about this? This blog supported by Google? I hate to keep changing email accounts. I like GMail due to the facts of storage, eye catching, POP, IMAP, etc … Yahoo is too bland. Wow, as writing my comment in this blog, I just received an email which is 49 minutes delayed. Totally unacceptable. If this continues to occur, I will be forced to switch to Yahoo. The email sent at 4:40 PM PST and arrived at my GoogleMail inbox at 5:29 PM PST … What happened to Google Mail lately?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:57:00 +0000

I noticed the email delay as well. Anonmyous’s explanation makes sense…I guess Google scanning every email takes a while, especially for large files.

I noticed that I didn’t get the handout that my TA emailed everyone else about. I couldn’t figure it out since I was sure that I was on my TA’s email list.
Turns out that she did indeed mail it before my class, but I got it the next day.

Heres picture proof:
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7001/gmailzm2.jpg

This picture shows that I received a particular email in my inbox at 4.56PM on Thursday, November 29, 2007

However, when I opened the same email, I see that it was sent on Wednesday, November 28 at 10:44am.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:06:00 +0000

when we are sending email using gmail account that will be delivered fast. But while you are sending through second account from Gmail it will contact the smtp server of that perticular domain. thats the reason it delays. If you send bigger attachments (even pdf also) directly from gmail that will also takes more time than ordinary email. because that attachment will be scanned at the google servers.

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