• Gmail Down Again!

    Gmail Down Again!

    Techtree News Staff, May 08, 2009 1607 hrs IST

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After few weeks of relative calm, Google's Gmail seems to have encountered another outage. While details of the outage are currently unknown, going by Twitter trends and related posts, it seems this one is on a fairly large scale and has affected a sizable number of users.





Google Apps users too have not been spared. Once you login, either on Gmail on your Google Apps mail page, you're greeted with the Temporary Error (500) message. If you were already logged in whilst the outage happened, you might see the "Oops the system encountered a problem (#767) - Retrying..." message.

Gmail has been in the limelight over the past few months because of its multiple outages that were reported in the past few months. The last outage was reported on April 17, just over three weeks ago. Prior to that, there was a major outage in March and another before that in February

     
As we file this, some users seems to have gained access to their accounts again while some others still haven't. Google has also updated the status page indicating the Google Mail outage. The mayhem on Twitter continues and Gmail seems to have become a trending topic in matter of minutes!



We await an official blog post/announcement from Google detailing the cause of the outage soon.

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(4) Comments
DJ faceplant
,Brighton, on May 12, 2009 02:07 PM
Bollocks. Just typical isn't it. All my outside communication cut off because Google can't run their webmail stuff. Even though I hate M$, at least I can pretty much always get into my Hotmail. Sort it out Google...
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Rose
,mum, on May 10, 2009 02:40 PM
system hai bab its hapens sometimes
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Anant Bhushan
,Roorkee, on May 09, 2009 01:56 PM
I learnt from the last outage, the feeling of helplessness of not having my own data was too much to be just laughed off. Google gears came to the rescue, now i store my mails for the past one year, and my calendar offline. I can work, read, and draft mails offline and they get synced whenever i get online(or whenever Gmail comes online)... :-) ... :-) ... So i will have to say i did not really feel the latest outage.. :-) ... And i am glad to say that.
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tarlok
,mumbai, on May 08, 2009 04:41 PM
my gmail was down for about half an hour and i got the Temporary Error (500) message.now it is working fine.
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