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hi!! is anyone else having trouble logging into gmail right now? ive been trying for the last 15/20 minutes and i can’t seem to get on, it keeps telling me gmail is having an error!! anyone else?
Same problem here 🙂
yup! 😉
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Yup I have the same problem. I’m sure google will have it back up in no time.
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yup-;(
Gmail users were unable to get to their accounts on Tuesday as an outage struck the Google e-mail service.
“We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail,” Google said at 11:12 a.m. PDT on its Google Apps status dashboard after it discovered the error.
At 11:28 a.m. PDT, some good news arrived: “Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future.”
However, two hours later, the problems persisted for some, and the Twittersphere was abuzz with griping.
The problems appeared to affect the Web-based version of the service, but accounts could be reached using third-party e-mail software that used the IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol, interface.
Gmail is used by tens of millions of people, and its fast growth carried it past AOL’s e-mail service into third place, according to ComScore.
Google didn’t immediately comment on the scope and cause of the outage. It’s not the first Gmail outage this year.
Google Apps customers, who pay $50 per user per year, get extensions of their service contracts, if their services are down for longer than a certain duration. The dashboard showed only mail to have troubles, not other Google Apps services, such as Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs.
Outages pose problems for Google, as it tries to persuade companies to buy into its cloud-computing vision, in which applications are hosted on the Internet rather than on corporate computers. But Google argues that its service availability is competitive with most organizations’ abilities to run their own e-mail servers.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:20 PM PDT
Google’s Gmail e-mail service is currently down for a majority of its tens of millions of users, the company acknowledged Tuesday afternoon.
“We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail,” reads an alert posted at 3:53 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time in the Google Apps Status Dashboard.
In that dashboard, Google offers performance and availability information about the online services included in its Apps collaboration and communication suite, such as Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.
In the alert, Google said it expects to offer an update on the outage at close to 5 p.m.
Gmail is one of the most popular webmail services in the world, not only among individuals for personal use but also as a component of Apps, which is designed for use by organizations of all sizes and educational institutions.
As such, Gmail outages are immediately felt worldwide, especially among people and companies where it used for business communications.
its down in my office too
I see that on Feb 24th, ywn posted a story that gmail suffered a worldwide crash too.
hoishea es amecha, u’varech es nachlasecha….
Down for a few hours once in 6 months ain’t too bad.
Latest status update:
“Users can access their email via IMAP or POP.”
It’s back up
what is imap or pop
Y.W. Editor:
Thanks for the helpful link.
It’s back down
lol
Who needs gmail, anyway 😉 😉 😉
“what is imap or pop”
You can access Gmail via a desktop client (like Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird.)
thanx
Class action lawsuit vs. Google
Who’s in?
ME!
BS”D
Down here too :(.
Joseph –
Sure. We can sue for all the money we’ve paid for their quality service. Oh, wait…
tried doing through outlook and “the connection to microsoft exchange server is unavailable. outlook must be online or connected to complete this action”
i still cant access it! How are you all able to get on???
HELP!
My Gmail through IMAP is working fine. As is our entire company’s email system, which is running on Google Apps (gmail).
If you never enabled IMAP in your Gmail preferences, then you can’t turn it on now.
Joseph- I’m in for the long haul on this one… but I’m suing the CR, not gmail
The CR convinced me to switch- what do I need this ogmos nefesh for 😉
gmail is back in business. HURRAY!!
what is IMAP? what does it do? how much does it cost?
I GOT ON!!! what was this this crises stemming from?
IMAP is a way to access email. Basically it synchronizes your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Blackberry, etc), with your mail server (Gmail, in this case).
There is no cost for Gmail users to enable and use IMAP.
hss: IMAP is free from GMail. It is similar to POP3, but much more powerful. It is supported in virtually all desktop clients (like Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird.)
b”h gmail is now working.
mazel tov
i’m still pleased with gmail service
so if I still want to access my email from gmail.com I can’t use IMOP (or whatever the letters were?)
hss: You can use either or both simutaneously.
how do you set something like this up?? thanks for all your help. I am lost when it comes to things like this. I know how to do basics but beyond that I am lost!!
Use Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. Follow the instructions from Google:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287
Judging by the look of things- nearly everyone here is on Gmail inc myself. What was everyone on beforehand?
Me? I was on Yahoo…and I DON’T miss it!
noitall – Isn’t it called “Google Mail” in England (due to another party owning the “Gmail” trademark prior to Google)?
No Joesph we call it Gmail. but if you email to [email protected] it’s like emailing to [email protected]…
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