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GMail/Google Apps Down UPDATED: It’s Back

Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology Editor in Science & Technology.
Sep 1st, 2009 | Comments

UPDATE: It’s back Here’s what happened.
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I didn’t notice because Gmail is still accessible via IMAP and POP, so I’m getting it via Mail and Outlook. It’s also apparently accessible via iGoogle.

The official Google Twitter account, 18 minutes ago:

We’re aware that people are having trouble accessing Gmail. We’re working on fixing it. Apologies for the inconvenience http://bit.ly/31kL4B

The link goes to their status page (which does not list a docs outage).

TechCrunch reported turbulence at 4:30 ET this morning. The support page right now says:

September 1, 2009 1:02:00 PM PDT
Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users within the next 1.2 hours. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.

The Official GMail Blog:

We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain. We don’t usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind of information goes). Because this is impacting so many of you, we wanted to let you know we’re currently looking into the issue and hope to have more info to share here shortly… We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and will get Gmail back up and running as soon as possible.

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ordinarysparrow

Thanks!. . .this was exactly what i was frustrating about. . . what a relief. . .it wasn't because i pushed the wrong button. .

johnmgrant

Something is broken somewhere. About half the shortened links on Twitter are not working. Google Reader is working for me, though.

The "cloud" isn't as robust as advertised, or maybe we should say it's raining from the cloud...

Jim_Satterfield

I've never understood why some people in the tech field have thought that trusting every application they need to get work done to remote locations not under their control was a good idea. I have read many articles denigrating the "thick client" (Their word for desktop computers that actually have applications installed on them.) and just never been able to buy into it. There are just too many examples of it going bad. And I speak as someone who has been forced to create systems that work that way for some applications. Unfortunately I've never gotten the budget or time to develop the kinds of systems that can bypass these problems. Unless the "cloud" based apps give me a way to work locally as well I'm not interested.

ThurmanHart

Google is evil.

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