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Email has been nearly instantaneous for me for the past decade or so. Either it arrives in a 30 second window, or never. Usually 2-5 seconds.

by jiofih 6y ago

Macha 6y ago
I have both a personal G Suite domain (formerly "Google Apps For Your Domain") and my employer's G Suite account where in both cases I've experienced 5+ minute delays on a semi-frequent basis.
- samb1729 6y ago
  > (formerly "Google Apps For Your Domain") And now formerly G Suite, as it's become Google Workspace. Gotta keep that "products rebranded per decade" quota up, it seems!
- Izkata 6y ago
  Our work email is gmail-hosted, and just once a few weeks ago, I received an internal email days after it was sent.
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
email is supposed to be dependable - as a protocol - it should always arrive. This dependability comes at the price that in some edge cases it must arrive slowly. There should be no 'never' arrive, although I realize that many services now effectively keep email from actually being seen by the user in the name of combating the various problems a free, anonymous, dependable message delivery protocol inevitably give rise to.
sethammons 6y ago
I run an MTA sending billions of emails daily. Most mail is delivered in seconds, but there is a long tail that can take days (myriad of reasons involving recipient mail servers, dns, sending behavior , etc). It would not be fun to have your log in attempt come in a couple days later. 99.9%+ you will be just fine, but how do you handle those people who fall through into long-delay land?
jwr 6y ago
That's great, good for you! But E-mail is not guaranteed (nor designed) to be instantaneous.
da_big_ghey 6y ago
Thirty seconds is not instantaneous and is much slower than typing a password. The only server that shows mail the instant it's sent is the one I run for my personal use, which is a bad solution for most.
hrktb 6y ago
"never" doesn't feel instantaneous though. Joking aside, email never coming is a pretty common occurence for me on new services, especially small orgs (local clubs, small merchants)

Email has been nearly instantaneous for me for the past decade or so. Either it arrives in a 30 second window, or never. Usually 2-5 seconds.

by jiofih 6y ago

Email has been nearly instantaneous for me for the past decade or so. Either it arrives in a 30 second window, or never. Usually 2-5 seconds.

Macha 6y ago

I have both a personal G Suite domain (formerly "Google Apps For Your Domain") and my employer's G Suite account where in both cases I've experienced 5+ minute delays on a semi-frequent basis.

samb1729 6y ago
> (formerly "Google Apps For Your Domain") And now formerly G Suite, as it's become Google Workspace. Gotta keep that "products rebranded per decade" quota up, it seems!
Izkata 6y ago
Our work email is gmail-hosted, and just once a few weeks ago, I received an internal email days after it was sent.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

email is supposed to be dependable - as a protocol - it should always arrive. This dependability comes at the price that in some edge cases it must arrive slowly. There should be no 'never' arrive, although I realize that many services now effectively keep email from actually being seen by the user in the name of combating the various problems a free, anonymous, dependable message delivery protocol inevitably give rise to.

sethammons 6y ago

I run an MTA sending billions of emails daily. Most mail is delivered in seconds, but there is a long tail that can take days (myriad of reasons involving recipient mail servers, dns, sending behavior , etc). It would not be fun to have your log in attempt come in a couple days later. 99.9%+ you will be just fine, but how do you handle those people who fall through into long-delay land?

jwr 6y ago

That's great, good for you! But E-mail is not guaranteed (nor designed) to be instantaneous.

da_big_ghey 6y ago

Thirty seconds is not instantaneous and is much slower than typing a password. The only server that shows mail the instant it's sent is the one I run for my personal use, which is a bad solution for most.

hrktb 6y ago

"never" doesn't feel instantaneous though. Joking aside, email never coming is a pretty common occurence for me on new services, especially small orgs (local clubs, small merchants)