Google and Unfinished Software

Recently one of the big problems people I know as well as myself is the slowness of gmail message delivery. Basically what happens is you send an email to a gmail account and randomly it just won't show up, for about a day. If you go back and look at logs as to when the gmail stmp server recieved it normally you get that it recieved the email shortly after you sent it, gmail just lost the email and forgot to put it in your inbox for somewhere on the order of 10-20 hours.

This is starting to become a very common occurence. I personally find this highly annoying because there are occasions where I want my email in a fairly prompt manner. Waiting a day for an email with a link that expires in 3 hours is not kosher in my book. Now it would be all fine and dandy if I didn't have something to compare it to, however, I have used yahoo email for over 10 years. I have NEVER had an email time delay problem. And when I mean never, I do mean, never.

I think I've mentioned this before but Google has this bad habbit of labeling everything beta and never taking it out of beta. This allows them to never actually have to fix the problems that crop up. So far all the google software I have tried has looked good and worked somewhat decently but there has always been a few sticky issues. Pretty much exactly like my own software.

But I really need a reliable email system.