January 01, 1970 - BY Times of India - Tech

Google tells why Gmail faced delay in sending emails

Google acknowledges email delivery delays and rejected emails impacting Gmail users. The incidents on November 30 and December 1 lasted 6 hours and 23 minutes. High resource utilization in the core message processing system caused delays. Google apologizes and implements rate limit mechanisms. Preliminary analysis reveals overload in Google Message Router. Older emails will be auto-retried.