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Email is not a guaranteed delivery protocol. Messages get dropped if any server in the path has a problem. With 80+% of email being spam, it's also possible t
by macemoneta 17y ago
Email is not a guaranteed delivery protocol. Messages get dropped if any server in the path has a problem. With 80+% of email being spam, it's also possible that an aggressive filter on your ISP or an intermediate machine is selecting the messages incorrectly. Treating email as a reliable protocol does not make it so.
- cool-RR 17y agoNo ISP involved -- It's all in-Google.
- stcredzero 17y agoIf it's all in-house Google, there's no reason why they can't develop some sort of guaranteed delivery protocol, just for internal use. That would be a huge boon to a calendaring app with notification.
- mahmud 17y agoI think about 5 googlers just got yanked from their fun 20% projects into a meeting room. Yes, of course!
- roundsquare 17y agoIt may not be guaranteed, but how many emails do you have dropped every day? If someone is missing an a day from some source, I'd think that its not a problem with the servers along the way but a problem with the source or destination.