Why Does Email Take So Long to Arrive Sometimes?

Описание: ➡️ Counting on email being almost instant is probably a bad idea. Email is designed to tolerate many delays, and delays do happen.

Why does email take so long?
Email was never designed to be instant, and was built with tolerance for lengthy delays. The email infrastructure has improved to the point that it’s almost always very fast, but delays can still happen. Delays are most commonly caused by Server issues and floods of spam.

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Chapters
0:00 Why Does Email Take So Long
1:11 Server to server
1:40 Email Protocol
2:24 Overloads
2:50 Server problems
3:50 Delays versus bounces
4:48 Tracing time
6:15 Resiliency versus speed

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