Delay in Gmail emails
Delay in Gmail emails
Whenever I send an email from my phone using Gmail to my regular email account that I only use on my computer it will sometimes take 5 minutes before the email shows up on my computer. If I send any emails back and forth from different platforms they seem to arrive almost immediately. But Gmail from my phone... you can never tell how long it's going to take.
Re: Delay in Gmail emails
Emails can take a while if you are sending to a different domain, especially if it does not have some of the antispam protections schemes (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), it is not whitelisted by antispam databases, etc. Email is kind of a complicated/convoluted scheme that was originally intended for text, and now people try to send 20MB+ images and videos through, heh. Combine that with the hundreds of schemes to combat spam in headers and it becomes a nightmare to manage mail servers.
Some anti-spam protection schemes actually delay mail delivery to combat spam too.
Please excuse the rant.
Some anti-spam protection schemes actually delay mail delivery to combat spam too.
Please excuse the rant.
Re: Delay in Gmail emails
For most of my computing career I've been almost spam free. Up until 6 months ago I might get 2-3 spam emails a month. I must have gotten onto several lists because now I'm up to 5-10 a day. It really sucks. I do filter almost all of them but it still sucks.
Re: Delay in Gmail emails
I used to run an Hmail server here and utilized the function to delay email unless white listed.. Fly by nite spammers sometimes set up servers that do not wait and will drop emails pretty quick when the target server does not reply quickly..
Re: Delay in Gmail emails
One filter I've found that works pretty good is setting it to trash any email where I'm not the "To:" recipient. The only thing is if I'm Cc on the email it goes to trash. I'm going to have to modify this rule a little.
Re: Delay in Gmail emails
Clever... I will look into a similar rule.
What I do with my influx of hundreds emails per day, is:
1. Setup antispam on the speedguide mail server (Weighting based on Bayesian score, DKIM, SPF, From country, From domain reputation, and a number of other checks), and move spam to a "Junk" folder that gets deleted after 30 days automatically. Antispam filter seems to catch about 1500 spam emails per month, very few false positives when properly trained with thousands spam/notspam email collections.
2. Inbox rules: Places that send me mail regularly get their own separate "Inbox" folders to categorize mail a bit, bounces go to trash, etc.
What I do with my influx of hundreds emails per day, is:
1. Setup antispam on the speedguide mail server (Weighting based on Bayesian score, DKIM, SPF, From country, From domain reputation, and a number of other checks), and move spam to a "Junk" folder that gets deleted after 30 days automatically. Antispam filter seems to catch about 1500 spam emails per month, very few false positives when properly trained with thousands spam/notspam email collections.
2. Inbox rules: Places that send me mail regularly get their own separate "Inbox" folders to categorize mail a bit, bounces go to trash, etc.