I sent an email from my gmail account to my earthlink address this afternoon at 2:45. I didn't receive it until almost 9pm tonight. Same thing happened with another email I sent a week ago. Other emails work fine for me. Anybody else have issues with this?

12/5/2006 11:02:00 PM

I've had that happen very rarely, but with just about all the email accounts I've ever had in my life. Sometimes the servers get restarted or something, don't worry about it unless it's happening with more than one in 50 emails

12/6/2006 12:15:51 AM

its most likely a problem with Earthlink, and not Gmail

can you send email to friends, not on Earthlink or Gmail, and the emails come through fine? Such as sending an email to a Hotmail address?

12/6/2006 8:25:22 AM

Message from earthlink to gmail works fine. Message earthlink to earthlink works fine.
Tried another gmail to my earthlink and it was fine this time. Gmail to ncsu, fine.

It's just weird that I had two messages sent a week apart to each be delayed by several hours. Oh well. Thanks.

12/6/2006 3:37:37 PM

could be just some random machine somewhere thats bogged down. it happens to everyone now and again.

12/6/2006 4:28:04 PM

also strongly suspect it's an earthlink problem, not gmail.

if fact, read this essay that came out last week from Robert Cringley (a technology pundit for PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061201_001274.html

Quote :

"A good friend of mine noticed last June a sudden and precipitous decline in his volume of incoming e-mail with the numbers dropping by 80-90 percent. Was he less popular, less interesting than before? Or maybe some Bayesian filter had been imposed by his ISP (Earthlink) to suddenly spare him completely from spam. No such luck. The trend continued so my friend, who has long been in the networking business, himself, started running experiments. He sent messages from other accounts to his Earthlink address, to his aliased Blackberry address, and to his Gmail account. For every 10 messages sent, 1-2 arrived in his Earthlink mailbox, 1-2 (not necessarily the SAME 1-2) on his Blackberry, and all 10 arrived with Gmail. Swimming upstream through Earthlink customer support, my buddy finally found a technical contact who freely acknowledged the problem. Since June, he was told, Earthlink's mail system has been so overloaded that some users have been missing up to 90 percent of their incoming e-mail. It isn't bounced back to senders; it just disappears. And Earthlink hasn't mentioned the problem to these affected customers unless they complain. The two groups affected are those who get their mail with an Earthlink-hosted domain and those with aliased e-mail addresses like my friend's Blackberry."

12/6/2006 4:31:21 PM

That doesn't surprise me... I neglected to mention my last post that this isn't the first time I've seen weird issues with earthlink email. I've got a triad.rr.com address I could use, but I don't want to change. Interesting read though. Thanks.

12/6/2006 5:47:23 PM