Unacceptable e-mail delivery time

[GasX]

I took work from home last night and was unable to get the stupid secureID thing to work and access the network. I had to send some e-mails from my home PC to people in my company. One in particular was some RFP specifications for my colleague in Holland to use to get an RFP out for a very high priority project TODAY! I hit the send button at 12:30am last night.

This morning I learned that it did not arrive. The help desk was no help at all in solving this dilemma...

I just got back to my desk and the e-mail arrived at 4:44pm today (I cc'd myself).

That is 16 hours later and cost us an entire day! :|

 

[KingNothing]

Since you didn't say I'm going to assume your e-mail is delivered by winged monkeys, so why are you complaining? Winged monkeys take a while.

 

[rh71]

umm FAX ? How large is the RFP ?

You could've thrown it on a web/fileserver too...

 

[Rapidskies]

We use Lotus Notes and it is notorious for doing stuff like that. If I have something important I usually send it from my outside account.

 

[GasX]

the e-mail in question was not an RFP it was a collection of comments - i.e. about 50KB max

There was no reason to assume it would not get delivered and once I was at the office (where I learned that it had not arrived) it was too late to ensure that I have a copy of the comments here at work...

edit: stupid winged monkeys...

 

[GasX]

Looks like Ripplehost was the delay... :|

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Subject: RFP Details
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