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1 is not even close to true. I was a Gmail SRE at the time. Sends did not take 5 seconds at the time, they were handed off to the MTA right away. The MTA had th
by liquidgecka 7y ago
1 is not even close to true. I was a Gmail SRE at the time. Sends did not take 5 seconds at the time, they were handed off to the MTA right away. The MTA had the ability to delay delivery due to other projects and Gmail decided to use that feature to build undo send.
- batuhanw 7y agoWhat is MTA?
- Lt_Riza_Hawkeye 7y agoMail Transport Agent
- k-ian 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent
- k4r1 7y agoMessage transfer agent
- alasdair_ 7y ago>What is MTA? Metropolitan Transit Authority. No wonder sends were so slow...
- ajford 7y agoWas gonna say, I remember that being a Gmail Labs feature for a while. I opted in the first time I noticed it in the labs, and I feel like it took a long while to reach the public.
- ASalazarMX 7y agoDitto. Used it for years and was actually confused when it became a normal feature.