I use all of the big free email account providers like Gmail, Yahoo, GXM, Mail.com, hotmail, etc etc. Regular readers know that I am a data privacy freak, so every time that I have to open an account and need an email address, I do not give out my gmail because it has my real name. I have a whole stable of free accounts. AND, when I am asked to give another account for password recovery (or mobile phone number for that matter), I never do.
So I conducted some latency tests to see who has the fastest and slowest email. I sent all of the tests from a linux server using the sendmail facility. The winner by far was Gmail. The sent messages arrived the fastest by gmail. The loser and slowest email account was Yahoo. I am not surprised.
The only discordant note about the speed of gmail, is that I bet Google reads my email The ads on my gmail folder prove it.
