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gmails delayed for days

jan-forrest
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Over the past few weeks, my main gmail/googlemail account emails, from all sources, only appear every few days. I've seen it take up to 6 days, and then they all come in at once. This doesn't help if one of them contains a link that expires in 3 hours! It's only the google account that does this. The others work normally.

Over the past few weeks, my main gmail/googlemail account emails, from all sources, only appear every few days. I've seen it take up to 6 days, and then they all come in at once. This doesn't help if one of them contains a link that expires in 3 hours! It's only the google account that does this. The others work normally.

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Matt
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I would suggest you check online in the gmail web interface and see if the mail is actually there for a little while.

That was we might understand if the mail is not arriving as Google or not arriving in your desktop inbox for those days.

jan-forrest
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Oddly, it's sorted itself out, even though my laptop freezes at random intervals. Sometimes for seconds and often for minutes at a time! I doubt it's got anything to do with the 1.4 TB file I found on my external 2TB HDD (1TB internal), but we'll see what tomorrow brings!