# Lag of 10+ minutes between posting and getting email notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/lag-of-10-minutes-between-posting-and-getting-email-notifications/34475>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2015 年10 月 14 日 02:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lag-of-10-minutes-between-posting-and-getting-email-notifications/34475 "2015-10-14T02:04:02Z")\
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作者： ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
发布日期： [2015 年10 月 14 日 10:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lag-of-10-minutes-between-posting-and-getting-email-notifications/34475/13 "2015-10-14T10:31:52Z")

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> [@riking](#):
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> email time window mins for email in
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> isn’t that pop3 polling period mins ?

I _think_ that the first is the time Discourse waits before sending out mails for a post after it was processed (if it was received via email in), while the latter is the polling interval, i.e. the maximum time a mail should be unprocessed, stored in the inbox.

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