Google Gmail Is Down
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Indeed, a trip to the Google Apps status dashboard reveals these messages and offers an alternative way to access your e-mail through POP3 and IMAP:
Gmail Engineering Director David Besbris blogged on it here and offered his condolences, adding: "We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now -- we are too, and we definitely feel your pain." Is this Gmail outage:
Why? Do you use Gmail to run your business? I'll update this post briefly when Gmail comes back online. In the meantime, read more coverage on this issue here on Techmeme. Update: Gmail is back online for me as of 5:25 p.m. EDT. Hooray! Anyone else still denied access? Update 2: A Google spokesperson told me at 6:40 EDT: "the issue with Gmail that affected a majority of users has been fixed. It lasted for approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes." That may not seem like a lot of time, but for those of you who use Gmail for business, whether you're a paying Google Apps customer or not, you may feel almost 2 hours of downtime leads to 12 hours of lost productivity. |
Comments (9)
A slight pain. I don't need GMail immediately, but I need to check on a product that I have an RMA on, and my only copy of the RMA number is in my GMail account.
Posted by Adam | September 1, 2009 5:14 PM
I use G-Mail to run my CPA practice. This is a serious (huge) problem.
Posted by Donald | September 1, 2009 5:16 PM
Not a real problem. I have imap set up on my iPhone so I hadn't even noticed.
Posted by TR | September 1, 2009 5:23 PM
This is a huge problem and an outrage. I demand immediate Gmail access. What is with those people?
Posted by Sergei | September 1, 2009 5:40 PM
I have three other accounts POP'd into my GMail account. This is a huge problem for me.
Posted by LL | September 1, 2009 5:45 PM
Gmail down created a great trend on Twitter.. Even iGoogle was no working...Glad Its back now..Though I hope they will not come up with something like
After Twitter Google got DDOS attack
Posted by Harsh Agrawal | September 1, 2009 6:40 PM
GMail has been on the fritz for about an entire month now. I've been having issues loading the graphic rich version as of late.
Only the basic html version has been accessible on multiple occassions. Very frustrating. Very slow load, send and forward times.
Anyone else???
And yes, my entire company uses GMail and all our other accounts are pop'd into GMail. Not good...
Posted by Lee | September 1, 2009 7:31 PM
Keep reading of these outages (on alerts received via gmail) and never known it to happen. I use it constantly so I guess us guys in the UK are immune... tempts fate!
Posted by Dave | September 2, 2009 4:31 AM
OK. Gmail is FREE and a very reliable service. How can anyone complain! Then go pay for an email service and tell me how reliable that is!
If you are dumb enough to depend on a FREE service for email in your business then you deserve what you get and I'm not doing business with you.
Posted by Scott | September 4, 2009 11:21 AM