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Re: Not receiving E-mails
country flaguser name
United States
2007-04-23 10:00:07
I am pretty sure that one of Google's systems administrators
could
trace the issue. The question is will they? GMail is a free
service
and Google has no requirement to get your email to you at
all, least
of all in what you consider a reasonable amount of time.
That's the
way it is for all email, especially free email.

On Apr 21, 12:50 pm, "data" <datatravel...gmail.com> wrote:
> Here what you are saying however I have not seen
E-mails from 4 clients that
> I do business with all the time after they send the
messages to me while I
> am on the phone. Two of the users are using corp.
Exchange 2003 mail
> servers. They all are from different locations and
parts of the country.
> This just happened with a G-mail account to G-mail
account yesterday where
> it took 1 hr to receive a invitation to remote into a
client workstation.
> And it took an 1 hr to get a message from my other
hotmail account for more
> testing. So I guess may next question is considering
how large the G-mail
> server farm must be can the mail System admin do a
search of the log files
> from my account to see if anything is out of sorts.
----------Tests are
> showing that mail is flowing now again from different
users however E-mail
> sent to me yesterday have still have not showed up from
several clients.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kenn Nied
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gmail-Usersgooglegroups.com [mailto:Gmail-Usersgooglegroups.com] On
>
> Behalf Of Zack (Doc)
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:12 AM
> To: Gmail-Usersgooglegroups.com
> Subject: [Gmail-Users] Re: Not receiveing E-mails
>
> E-mail is not guaranteed delivery, quick, or even ever.
 We get so
> used to it being quick, we forget that it's a best
effort delivery
> dependent on many variables.  I've seen e-mails be
delayed as much as
> 5-6 days, and 24 hours is not too uncommon.
>
> Did you/are you receiving this one quickly?  Try from
several
> different sources to ensure where the problem really
exists.  It's
> entirely possible there's just a mail server slowing
down and holding
> this mail for delivery, and you'll eventually get a
torrent of mail
> all at once.
>
> If you discover that mail from any source (try hotmail,
aol.com,
> yahoo, and any other account you can get hands on) is
taking
> exceptionally long and appears to not arrive (I say
appear cause if
> the sender doesn't get a "bounce" message,
then as far as they're
> concerned, it's going to be delivered), then you should
submit a bug
> report to Gmail.  If the problem is related to a
single, or small
> group, of source addresses, THEY should report the
problem to their
> mail administrator.
>
> On 4/21/07, datatravel...gmail.com
<datatravel...gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All was fine until a few days ago... receiving
E-mail's sent to me
> > slowed down to the point where when someone sent
me an E-mail it too
> > 20 mins before it showed in my inbox.  Now I am
not recieving E-mails
> > at all from friends and business partners.  This
is happening via the
> > web account as well as my outlook account.  My
account is set to store
> > a copy of every e-mail on the server so they are
not getting lost when
> > syncing.... any ideas  G-men


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