icloud.com Mail Delayed

I have noticed a issue with using my email on iCloud.com where there is a massive delay in actually receiving the email. my macOS client seems to be faster but the email doesn't appear in webmail for about a hour after sending. I tested this by sending email from a outlook.com and it took about 2 hours to show in webmail.


I have done the usual; tried two different browsers and two different Macs, cleared cache and cookies but still the same. Also no rules are setup.


Anyone else seen something similar?

Posted on Nov 27, 2019 12:17 AM

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Dec 1, 2019 6:17 AM in response to qsszb

Hey there qsszb,


Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. I understand you’re experiencing a delay with receiving an email. I’ll be happy to help.


You’ve done some excellent troubleshooting so far. Do you have an account other that Outlook you can send from to isolate the issue even further? This will help us make sure the issue is with iCloud.


Also, does this happen with another network as well?


If neither of those have an impact on this, you may want to reach out to Apple Support at the following link so they can continue to look into this with you:


Contact Apple Support 


Cheers 

Dec 1, 2019 11:44 PM in response to i_rina

i_rina wrote:

Hey there qsszb,

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. I understand you’re experiencing a delay with receiving an email. I’ll be happy to help.

You’ve done some excellent troubleshooting so far. Do you have an account other that Outlook you can send from to isolate the issue even further? This will help us make sure the issue is with iCloud.

Also, does this happen with another network as well?

If neither of those have an impact on this, you may want to reach out to Apple Support at the following link so they can continue to look into this with you:

Contact Apple Support 

Cheers 

I am confused by the question here. Outlook.com is a 3rd party account, if im receiving email in Mail app but not webmail in my iCloud mail, then the problem wouldn't be anything todo with the account im sending the email from, your IMAP server is clearly delivering or seeing mail quicker than your webmail, as the IMAP and Webmail is managed by you. I am also seeing the same problems with other mails, such as bills, mobile phone and newsletters so I dont see how testing from another account will help with this at all - as again - I get the email almost instantly using IMAP connection and the mail app, just not webmail.


Same with the network, I dont have a network issue. I have tried webmail on two Macs work and home. So yes I have tried two networks and the same things happens, but again bit of a odd step to even mention when I am not experiencing any problems with loading iCloud.com or slowness, the problem is simply that webmail has a delay on the email coming in...... which has only been happening for am month or so I believe..... I have contacted support, and with things like this which clearly are not a simple setting or fix, it ends up going nowhere with apple support unfortunately, hence posting here to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problems.

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