I'm curious: Why set up a separate account in the first place?

Long story. I sent the article out, then went on a week long trip with my kids to my parents' house in Lubbock, Texas, where they only have dial-up Internet. Because my hopes were flying high, I knew that I would have offers flying over the email. The Marquette outlook takes about 45 minutes to load remotely over dial-up, but Gmail is a lot faster. In fact, I can load gmail on a Blackberry quicker. So, I thought gmail would be easier to access while on vacation.

I have had gmail for about a year now. And I have found that it often takes a long time to receive e-mails. I have had people simultaneously dispatch e-mails to my yahoo and gmail accounts and found that when attachments are involved the yahoo account still gets the mail almost immediately but it can take 30 minutes to receive it on gmail! With no attachments, they are comparable. So basically, if it is urgent w/attachments send it to something other than gmail. Others I know with gmail have experienced the same problem.