Google’s Gmail service crashes across world

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The email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, and even as far afield as Australia and India.

It appears that only web-based Gmail access is affected, and users can continue to send and receive messages using other devices, such as mobile phones and third-party mail clients.

Google could not confirm what had caused the outage. “A number of users are having difficulty accessing Gmail,” said the company in a statement. “We are working to resolve the problem. We know how important Gmail is to users, so we take issues like this very seriously, and we apologise for the inconvenience.

“We are posting status updates about the problem at mail.google.com/support.”

Bloggers and Twitter users were quick to flag up issues with the service. Google’s web-based email system is usually fairly robust, and suffers little downtime, so many internet users were left baffled by the problems and at a loss as to what to do. Many Twitter messages offered workarounds to the problem, such as using mobile email applications, while other Gmail users said they would simply down tools and make a cup of tea and wait for the issue to be resolved.

Several major companies, including Telegraph Media Group and The Guardian, have switched to using the Google Apps suite in place of conventional desktop email. Google Apps allows users to work collaboratively on documents via the web, as well as share calendars, and provides instant messaging and chat alongside Gmail email services.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechn...ross-world.html

[Jasman0717 9]

I signed up for Google email once but have never used it.

[Scott & Lai 12]

No problems here...

I signed up for Google email once but have never used it.

Googe is our primary email.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Yes I did notice. I tried to log on this morning at 6am and was given a variety of error messages. I have my visa on arrival letter for Vietnam stored there and had not made copies yet. Of course I am beginning my trip today and it could have been a major disaster. As soon as it came back up I made copies like I should have done a few days ago.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I have one as well--rarely (try once in square-blue-moon) used but it's the one tying in to VJ.

[Heracles 417]

A.J. must manage their servers or something.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

A.J. must manage their servers or something.

More likely, they're under your management.

[NickD 202]

I haven't figured out how to organize my e-mails in Yahoo, Hotmail, nor gmail, one long list of messes. And even before using gmail, it was loaded with spam. But these services do provide worldwide access where for some unknown reason, my server is blocked in certain countries.

Then your e-mails, the important ones are on a hard drive someplace, have no idea where they are at. Like having those in my own computer with backups in their respective folders and sub folders, so I can find them.

[Jasman0717 9]

No problems here...

I signed up for Google email once but have never used it.

Googe is our primary email.

After my weekend episode with Yahoo maybe I should switch

[mendeleev 68]

Has it crashed again? We're getting Server Error #1 when we try to send gmail out just now. Five times with a reboot in between.