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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Better stop relying on it, I guess.

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.

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

but no webmail as yet.

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!

This is funny.

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.

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?

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

Well...isn't it?

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!

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Did you pay for Google mail?

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Webmail interface is up now...

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!