Topic: Why do some websites take so long to send "automatic" password recovery/reset emails?

Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #39,591

It is extremely frustrating!!

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 18 minutes later[^] [v] #526,867

Which website, please?

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,870

@previous (B)
WHY DOES IT FUCKING MATTER??

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,873

@previous (A)
Just answer the fucking question.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,875

@previous (B)
Dox/harassment.

Why don't you answer the fucking question? How about that?

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 36 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,877

@previous (A)
It matters, because I can help you with it, if I know which site it is.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,879

@previous (B)
...no you can't.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 43 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,880

@previous (A)
You sure are being difficult.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,882

@526,867 (B)
@526,873 (B)
@526,877 (B)
You can't help anyway, because there is literally nothing anyone other than the site operator that can do anything about this. Stop being a creepy fuck.

@OP
The site likely has a shitty mail system. Either they have a lot of mail to send, and your message is put on a queue and it takes some time to be processed. Or they have some other setup that is sucky in a way which delays it, such as slow servers.

That said, mail is hard. Even harder if you don't want to be tagged as spam.

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,883

@previous (C)
Thank you very much for your thoughtful and helpful reply.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 6 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #526,934

@OP

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