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Google's email service goes down

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Timothy

Why google... 

Unhappy

...Why do you keep tumbling down, more and more every month, i hope they sort it soon for their sake :(

Nick

Not all dead 

Whilst I can't access the gmail website, I can still access my email via imap (on my iPhone). I don't know about POP, but it looks like the service isn't completely dead.

Scott K

Thought the phone was a bit quiet this morning 

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Using Gmail as my push style email on the phone, thought it was a bit quiet! thanks for the heads Up el reg

Neil Hoskins

webmail only? 

Go

Seems to be webmail only. I can connect to my imap box.

Charlie Stross

Minor correction 

Stop

Gmail is in fact working <em>fine</em> -- if you use IMAP or POP to access it. It's just the webmail front end that's down.

Anonymous Coward

...in the meantime users can keep hitting F5 

Stop

They could; but they'd be advised to save wear and tear on their fingers and the F5 key, since our glorious benefactors choose not to post any updates on the status of GMail.

Paul

bally annoying 

Unhappy

Thank you, Reg, I was beginning to think it was me.

Better stop relying on it, I guess.

Simon Casey

Tis fine? 

I've been using it fine all morning via IMAP on my iPhone? Sent an email at 8:50, 9:12, 9:36, 10:29 and 11:26.

Just checked and still sending/receiving just fine thanks :)

Tim Spence

POP 

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No doubt I'll be the millionth commenter here, reporting that it's still working via POP access, but I'm happy to report that Google Mail is still working via POP access.

Anonymous Coward

The problem is in the Web-Based Service 

Go

Point you IMAP client to their server and Hey-Presto you can still get at your emails!

Jon Pain

I've got IMAP 

Stop

but no webmail as yet.

John Seto

You can still check mail thru' pop3 

looks like you can still see mail using pop3, certainly I am still getting alerts via the GTalk client, so looks like the front-end side of things have gone t*ts up

Andy Hawes

Works.... 

.....But running VERY VERY Slowly..

Edward Miles

<Insert witty title here> 

Go

IMAP/SMTP is still working. Dunno about pop3. Just had to scramble to set up a command imap client on my server 'cos today would be the day I don't have access to my thunderbird. Grumble. Still, all good now!

Greg Kerr

Annoying 

This is affecting me as use Google Apps Mail for my business. Get yr shit together Google!

Quick tip, IMAP is still working, mail is coming through to my phone.

Anonymous Coward

Waahh! But Google can do no wrong!! 

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This is funny.

dervheid

Still cream crackered! 

Unhappy

Just what kind of free service are the offering here?

Isn't it enough that we let them pimp, sorry, of course I meant analyse, our usage data in return.

I did wonder why my inbox was surprisingly empty at 7-45 this morning. I suspect they started having problems way before 10-15.

Doug

a freebee in the cloud .. 

Linux

I don't suppose we should complain about a freebee service. Some time back, most of us wouldn't have an email address without some college or business providing it. Currently we get a basic email service from our ISP, which can also go down on occasions. The only other solution is to host your own email server in some server farm. What would it cost to set up and service, assuming most people wouldn't be technically inclined to roll their own?

John Dow

ZOMG! TEH FAIL! 

Alien

Well, it's a free services and a damn good one at that price, so fair enough.

Craig

Isn't google services falling offline one of the harbingers of the apocolypse? 

Flame

Well...isn't it?

Anonymous Coward

Durr, wah? 

Ditch Exchange and Outlook (no matter how crappy they may be) for something that is little better than Hotmail?

This, of course, ignores that fact that company email is even less secure and less private than it was before.

What kinds of companies are we talking about? Proper ones or just mom and pop cottage industries?

Martin

Offline for webmail, online for POP3 

Unhappy

As title really, when it first went down, couldn't access anything, but the secure pop3 server came back up fairly quickly. The webmail is still giving a 502 error which is... annoying, but you gets what you pays for I guess!

Anonymous Coward

Who you gonna call 

Unhappy

Apparently not Gmail engineers.... haven't had access for the better part of 2hrs now....

Luke

Still broken but... 

weirdly works fine on my phone.

Bill

shocker 

Unhappy

down in the uk, usa, france, switzerland and ireland amongst others

csynt

IMAP access works. 

I just managed to check my email via IMAP (secure) using Evilution (Ubuntu 8.10)

chris

Christopher P. Martin

Wot... no credit? 

I guess I was only one of many to report this then. Just shows how many people rely on it. Still, even with the occasional outage, I'd still rather eat a tablespoon of ferret faeces than go back to hotmail.

Rob Thorley

Apple and iPod Sync 

Coat

Over the weekend I couldn't sync my iPod to Gmail, although I was accessing t'internet without issue. Hope I haven't f***ed things up?

Anonymous Coward

IMAP still working 

Stop

I can still access both my GMail accounts via IMAP (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725&topic=12891)

It's strange using an email client again after years of using GMail though.

JohnP

Sky users affected too! 

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Not just Gmail users. All Sky broadband customers will be affected as Sky's e-mail system is part of G-Mail. As of 11.42 am UK time, it is still down.

Scott Wichall

I can't get mail either 

So someone has tripped over all the cables at google central again then....

Anonymous Coward

Long way round 

Looks like you can still get to gmail if you go via the googletalk app or log into google calendar/docs and jump across to your gmail account.

ThisTimeNextYear

You get what you pay for... 

Paris Hilton

That's most annoying however since I've never paid google a penny (although I'm sure they've made a few quid out of me clicking on adverts) I can't really have the arse with their free service going down.

Hohum... Erm Paris because she's allways happy to go down.

Rogier

IMAP access is working 

IMAP access does seem to be working fine though, at least for me.

Chris

Work-around - IMAP up 

Google's IMAP servers still seems to be working. If you don't want to configure an email client then you can log on via http://www.mail2web.com.

Richard Parkin

Currently working by POP and IMAP 

The web mail is not working but it is currently working by POP and IMAP

Anonymous Coward

Well.... 

It is _still_ in beta...

Anonymous Coward

Still more up time then Exchange 

Its been working OK, albeit slowly.

Still, even with a bit of downtime, its vastly better then Exchange and Outlook. After all, the would have down time as well, even just thru admin error. 1-2 days a year down time quite frankly is acceptable in my opinion.

si

iphone ok 

Jobs Halo

Actually, I can still use my gmail through my iphone, the browser version that seems to be down

Doddy

Only the web interface is down 

Go

Looks like it's just the web interface that's down. I'm still getting mail ok via POP3 on Mail.app, so it should be fine for anyone using GMail through a local mail app.

Pete

Pete 

Google's mail outage, also is effecting sky's emails, which are handled by gmai l!!!

Michael Fremlins

Moaning minnies 

Happy

Did you pay for Google mail?

Anyone who thinks they can do better should have a go!

Anonymous Coward

google goes offline 

Unhappy

now I understand why they promote their off line services...

david miron

Cartoon - Gmail Down Is It The End? 

Gmail Fail Cartoon

http://www.pcdisorder.com/2009/02/gmail-down-is-it-world-ending.html

Anonymous Coward

@ZOMG! TEH FAIL! 

Is it free? I pay for mine. Dont forget there are several aspects to gmail.

You have GAPE Standard and Premier then the bog standard Gmail offering.

A lot of companies moving to Google instead of other hosted options. They are going to be the ones worried by these events.

POP3 and IMAP work fine.

Anonymous Coward

Just a ploy by Google 

Boffin

Obviously they have done it just to get more people using the Offline Gmail feature they launched last week...

Peter Pringle

Don't google 'gmail down' 

Stop

I decided to see what was up with Gmail by googling for 'gmail down'. The first result appears to be a google group with the name of my query. Clicking on the link brought up the group with a big porn banner on the top! Not exactly office safe...

Anonymous John

GFail 

Unhappy

"We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused."

I do so hate that use of the word "any". All downtime is inconvenient.

mc_nebula

Up now 

Go

Webmail interface is up now...

Michael Hall

Wouldnt go back to Exchange... 

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I dont think a small mess like this would convince anybody who has been weened of exchange to go back to it. Google Apps dying once a year is a lot nicer than exchange dying because:

The logs are full,

The database is full and now needs to be defragged for 2 days,

Exchange DoSed itself by duplicating messages in its own que,

etc,

etc.

Yep I remember the days when I had fix these sorry ass problems. Now with the miracle of google apps some other poor sod has to fix them and nobody has to pay a penny!

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