Today I was surprised to see too many emails in a normally “slow” Gmail label.  Then I got the real surprise finding some of them were over a week old – yet they just arrived. .  This label only has email fetched from another Gmail account.  OK, let’s check history:

Ouch. Mail Fetcher hasn’t bothered to check the source account for 10 days….

Gmail’s Mail Fetcher is a very useful feature. Other than the typical email consolidation, it can be used to merge several accounts, or the final and crucial step of your migration from the desktop to Gmail.  It’s more than useful: it’s crucial.

Just don’t trust it too much.

Update: Other Google services also ailing today…