Some emails that are being sent to a Google apps email address are delayed (by almost 7 minute in the example below). They seem to be delayed at some machine with a 10. IP address. Is that 10. IP address internal to Google? Or internal to my ISP?
Delivered-To: [google apps address]
Received: by 10.52.110.161 with SMTP id ...;
Fri, 7 Jun 2013 06:41:19 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.58.75.73 with SMTP id ...;
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:34:32 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <sender.com>
Received: from mailout5.ezhostingserver.com (mailout5.ezhostingserver.com. [216.198.218.165])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id ...
This is the free version of Google apps for business, thus comes with no support. Is there anything I can do to avoid this delay (other than using a different email provider, which I will probably try just to compare)?
Edit: Thanks for all the great comments & answers. At the risk of getting downvoted, since this crowd has at least noticed these delays with gmail, would anyone care to suggest an alternative email service without such (or at least with less) delays? I would like to be able to poll for new email every 30 seconds or so.
Best Answer
Google mail is on the whole remarkably fast, which is why youre expectations of it are such that this sort of delay is not expected. It's certainly not bad.
Spam processing is one reason for delays. Processing an email may only take up to a few seconds, but sometimes google can get more info by waiting a while, and I suspect they do so. eg if a message has some reason to suspect spam, but doesn't look like the spams they've seen so far, they might choose to wait. After a few minutes, chances are most spam types will have been received by many users, and they'll be better able to assess the email.