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Gmail having issues
- dengsauve 6y agoWe are seeing a lot of email bounced back, but otherwise usable.
- cowkingdeluxe 6y agoAny email sent to my gmail is getting permanently bounced. Says my email does not exist at gmail.
- freedomben 6y agoThis just happened to me as well. Not great D-:
- admn2 6y agoseeing the same thing Edit: oops thought it was a text post
- Spare_account 6y agoYou've linked to the same URL as this HN post
- donalhunt 6y agoSeeing the same. Even email from Google f̶o̶r̶ ̶̶w̶o̶r̶k̶g̶r̶o̶u̶p̶s̶ workspace to gmail is having issues.
- cordite 6y agoYep, another here too. Weird really weird when both emails have existed with this forwarding scheme for over 2 years.
- Spare_account 6y agoIt's inconsistent for me, I've had two failures and one success in quick succession
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y agoNow think about if some gmail accounts got Thanos snapped out of existence. What kind of digital death would that be as you would NEVER be able to recover your accounts, at least for most people who don't have 2FA.
- mikehollinger 6y ago> Now think about if some gmail accounts got Thanos snapped out of existence. What kind of digital death would that be as you would NEVER be able to recover your accounts, at least for most people who don't have 2FA. An interesting problem - I have a gmail address, and also one on my personal domain (which uses g-suite for email). The personal domain's backup is a gmail address, and the gmail's backup is my personal domain. When I set that up ages ago, I genuinely never thought about what happens if gmail itself implodes. I guess I'm setting up a... icloud??? backup email for a bunch of stuff shortly.
- throw1234651234 6y agoWe are using a gmail inbox to process some business-critical emails in bulk. I guess those emails will be lost forever? Thankfully, we have backups, but we will have to move them to the inbox or elsewhere to have them processed. Edit: As an update, we usually have at least 100 emails come in every hour, and I am seeing none since 4:02 pm EST
- toolbox12 6y agoYup. It also seems to be affecting some of our G Suite accounts - although not all(?) Not a good week for Google
- evad3r 6y agoBlimey, why use a free Gmail account for a business critical operation? That's just asking for trouble.
- gabagool 6y agoThey may be using the paid, enterprise G Suite/Google Workspace Gmail: https://workspace.google.com/products/gmail/ https://workspace.google.com/products/gmail/.
- belorn 6y agoCan they call someone when there is an issue with gmail? Is there a contract that give them some leverage and guaranties? What is the process in the case of a missing business-critical email being lost and needing recovery? For business critical operation, leave such answers unanswered can be pretty risky.
- gjanezic 6y agoAWS SES just blocked our account due to high number of bounces :(
- qz2 6y agoOh great. One more reason I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight. Other people’s automation scares me. I’m sure mine scares other people as well.
- miyuru 6y agoFortunately I had email bounce notifications setup and to a none gmail address, so had time to stop the email queue.
- chinathrow 6y agoThe funny thing is part of that situation started exactly 24h ago as I too saw increased bounces from AWS SES towards Gmail addresses. Not for everyone though, to be fair. If anyone from AWS SES is reading - please do not deliver bounce receipts for gmail for the time being - it makes everyones situation much worse.
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- wenbin 6y ago"Type: Permanent; SubType: General; Code: smtp; 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser y128si147264pfg.177 - gsmtp"
- com2kid 6y agoThis is pretty much the worst response possible. Hard bounces mean that email delivery services are going to start automatically removing, or at least stopping delivery to, entire slews of email addresses. A lot of clean up is going to be needed as a result of this. To add some more details, when using a 3rd party email delivery service, those services will either black-list or just outright remove email addresses when they get a hard bounce "email address no longer exists" message back. Some providers make re-adding an address after a hard bounce a non-trivial task, since after all, the authority on that email address just said it doesn't exist. This is going to be really ugly.
- petercooper 6y agoYes. I email hundreds of thousands of Gmail users each week (yes, double opt in, they all want the mails!) and we immediately delete any user for whom any Gmail error comes up at all in order to keep a solid delivery record with them. Sounds like we might have deleted 80% of our list if we'd sent today..!
- chevman 6y agoStarted sometime earlier today - we got alerted by Salesforce deliverability team around 11am CST.
- frlnBorg 6y agogithub has un-verified my account and I'm unable to merge PRs, leave comments, etc... until it's verified again.
- lrossi 6y agoScary! I hope I’m not going to get any email notification until they bring it back up.
- gregjotau 6y agoI
- gregjotau 6y agoSame issue here
- systemvoltage 6y agoSide note: Love the 2010-era web design. Wtf happened? Everything got bloated, buttons got huge and whitespace took over the screen real-estate.
- wwb099 6y agoTouch on smaller screens became the primary interface. Fingers fat, buttons big.
- systemvoltage 6y agoYeah, I get that. But why punish the Desktop users with mobile interface? We used to punish Mobile users with Desktop interface back then, we just reversed the problem, didn't actually solve it. They should be 2 separate things. 2 separate css files with @media select. 2 separate button sizes and styles. I know what happened - designers got lazy.
- arthurcolle 6y agoYeah, I like rich, data-heavy, information dense desktop displays. Mobile UIs are such garbage, not to mention shit like reddit that only is able to process a request 30% of the time.
- redwards510 6y agoAgreed. it drives me absolutely berserk that Reddit forces you to "Click to view more comments" just to see like 3 more comments.
- hyperhopper 6y agoThat particular anti user behavior is a strategy to pay reddit gold, which removes that limitation.
- djxfade 6y agohttps://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com
- j-wags 6y agoOver the past 24 hours, I've had GitHub request that I re-verify my gmail three times (roughly 22 hours ago, 2 hours ago, and now), each time resetting my primary email's status to "Undeliverable" and "Unverified" The triggering event may be an email bounce. I get a lot of github notifications sent to my email, and the failure of just one/a few may trigger the reverification.
- AnssiH 6y agoYep, there was a very similar event yesterday, approx. 22 hours ago: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=109f5878e60fdfb3c0f64fc9b81752e1 https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=10...
- jasonjayr 6y agoI figured one major incident for Google was enough for the day! We had a bunch of email bounce to @gmail domains yesterday in that timeframe.
- Netcob 6y agoWhen that happened I panicked a little, realizing how much Google Sheets data I had that wasn't really backed up anywhere since Sheets files in Google Drive are basically just links. I started a Takeout, but it looks like I wasn't the only one - it took well over a day to complete.
- senkora 6y agoBe sure to verify that it worked. Some settings of Takeout don’t download docs/sheets/slides files. I don’t remember what the default is, unfortunately.
- Seirdy 6y agoThis is another good reason to have email @yourowndomain.tld When this happens, you can spin up a temporary server and have a mechanism in place to redirect email so you don't go down when your provider does.
- nathanyz 6y agoUnless it's a coincidence, I don't think this is just Gmail as I am seeing slow, failed networks connections to services in Google Cloud.
- e15ctr0n 6y agoSMTP seems to be down as well. "Login to server smtp.gmail.com failed." using an email client IMAP seems to be working, though.
- throw1234651234 6y agoSMTP went down for 5 minutes. Our service was able to re-connect automatically and has been working fine, if that helps you. Could be inconsistent though.
- philmcp 6y agoAnyone else having issues in general with "the internet" over the last few days? The images on different websites I've visited don't load (e.g. twitter, bbc etc). When they do they load, they load verrry slowly
- nathanyz 6y agoYes, they Internet has felt for lack of better word “weird” for the past couple days. Nothing specific but similar to your experience with random things not loading but refresh and it’s fine etc. Or strangely slow response on websites.
- octoberfranklin 6y agoThat's generally DNS tampering by backbone providers (Centurylink and Verizon in the USA). Use dnscrypt.
- guidoism 6y agoI reeeeally don't want to go down this rathole but a few days ago when my kids were having problems connecting to YouTube on both wifi and LTE I had begun to think that Trump pulled the 1. Stop Internet, 2. Attempt Coup thing.
- rossdavidh 6y agoWhile, unlike many other people, I do _not_ believe Trump is an idiot, or even dumb at all, I do not believe he has any knowledge of how to stop the internet even if he wanted to. Plus, how would he send tweets if no internet? I think he likes being able to use Twitter more than he likes being President.
- 22c 6y agoMy cursory understanding of the whole "internet going dark" conspiracy is that this would not be used by Trump, but be used by the shadow government in co-operation with "Big Tech" in order to create panic and confusion amongst the masses so they can't organise, feel helpless and ultimately ask for "big government" and "big tech" to step in and save them. For whatever reason, gp seems to be under the impression that it's Trump who would use this to his own advantage, which is not consistent with the prevailing conspiracy theories.
- dimeatree 6y agoIt has been fun explaining to customers that G-mail has been having issues.
- firebaze 6y agoAs quite a few googlers appear to read and write on HN, I'd really welcome an insider info on what's going on the last few days. Sure there will be some internal turmoil going on right now, but isn't there some non-confidential info to share? Can't imagine this will hurt the image of google neither in the short nor long run, quite the opposite.
- divbzero 6y agoYes, I’ve been hearing about this issue from non-technical friends too. An explanation of “X crashed” helps even if they don’t actually understand what X is. The fact that someone figured it out and knows is reassuring.
- rat9988 6y agoI would advice anyone to not share any information that his company hasn't agreed explicitely to share.
- kalvisk 6y agoThey are getting ready to be acquired by Microsoft :D
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- dailypeeker 6y agoWhat is a status page that has the time without timezone
- plasma 6y agoThis irks me even on statuspage.io pages (I think?) where times are in PST or something quite often. Very surprising it’s not localised.
- grapeape25 6y agoThere is a note regarding time zones at the bottom of the page: "All times are shown in your local timezone unless otherwise noted."
- shakna 6y agoWhich timezone is my local timezone? A bunch of geolocation systems think I'm in Paris. I'm in Melbourne. (My ISP bought an IP block that used to be registered to a French company). That's a considerable difference.
- noemit 6y agoI'm in spain and my geolocation is also always wrong.
- kzrdude 6y agoIt's not geolocation - just a javascript function to ask the browser what the UTC offset of your local time is. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clients-timezone-offset-in-javascript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clie...
- shakna 6y agoWhich JavaScript function? The two main ones return two differing results for my browser. Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone > "Australia/Melbourne" Which is UTC +11. new Date().getTimezoneOffset() > -710 Which is roughly UTC +11.8. If you're going to shoebox me into a particular timezone - tell me what it is, and let me change it.
- hikerclimb 6y agoNice hopefully they got hacked
- gramakri 6y agoIf this had happened on self hosted email server, people would be claiming "this is why you don't self-host email". My company self hosts email and we have never had an outage of this sort. ever. All support emails to gmail accounts are now bouncing for us. It's also been more than 2 hours since this problem started.
- divbzero 6y agoThe analogous claim here would be: “This is why you don’t entrust critical services to third parties.”
- notriddle 6y agoThe name for this is "victim blaming." Someone suffers from a catastrophe (or from abuse, but that's not what happened here), and you imagine a way that it could've been avoided, never mind that things could've gone just as badly wrong the other way around.
- freehunter 6y agoIf everyone who uses Gmail hosted their own email servers those people would suffer far more and far worse outages that Google has had.
- octoberfranklin 6y agobut not all at once
- freehunter 6y agoBut far more consistently. Most users have no idea how the Internet works, let alone hosting something as complex as email. They'd just stop using email and switch entirely to Facebook.
- rubatuga 6y agoAlso, never ever a 550 5.1.1 error.
- noemit 6y agois there a product you could use, like a cache layer for gmail? An investor I know would love that product. I understand things go down, but it's actually quite a pain to lose access to your existing emails and calendar events. Could he just use a Mail app like Outlook? Yes. But that's too complicated to set up I think.
- betaby 6y agoSMTP was designed to have primary / secondary etc. Google decided they know better and not to follow the SMTP standards
- aerosmile 6y agoResolved as of 3:51 PST.
- windexh8er 6y agoJust got this from the ProtonMail team: > Dear ProtonMail user, Starting at around 4:30PM New York (10:30PM Zurich), Gmail suffered a global outage. A catastrophic failure at Gmail is causing emails sent to Gmail to permanently fail and bounce back. The error message from Gmail is the following: 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. This is a global issue, and it impacts all email providers trying to send email to Gmail, not just ProtonMail. Because Gmail is sending a permanent failure, our mail servers will not automatically retry sending these messages (this is standard practice at all email services for handling permanent failures). We are closely monitoring the situation. At this time, little can be done until Google fixes the problem. We recommend attempting to resend the messages to Gmail users when Google has fixed the problem. You can find the latest status from Google's status page: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8... Best Regards, The ProtonMail Team
- systemvoltage 6y agoThis feels like a cheap shot at Google. Shit happens, and they're not immune to it even if the servers are located in Zurich. Running a datacenter is no easy task.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoBeing down is okay. Returning an error message that results in the data being thrown away instead of being requeued is not. Block incoming smtp connections until your app layer is fixed.
- blibble 6y agoworkspace (gsuite) customers: remember to claim under the SLA, cos they don't award it automatically under 99.9% is a 3 day credit, and they're currently at 99.4%
- guidoism 6y agoI've noticed references to my.name@google.com instead of my real address my.name@gmail.com — That doesn't seem good.
- paulie_a 6y agoGoogle assistant is also having troubles
- jonathanbull 6y agoCEO of an email marketing platform here (EmailOctopus). If anyone's curious, here's a chart showing our bounce rate to Gmail addresses over the course of the week: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpUE20UXYAEa_Uv?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpUE20UXYAEa_Uv?format=jpg&name=... That's a peak of 90% of Gmail inboxes bouncing – and this has been going on for almost 24 hours.
- gkop 6y agoHow do the public gmail addresses compare to the enterprise (used to be G Suite, now Google Workspace) ones?
- sebmellen 6y agoI would be very interested to know this as well. I am trying to switch my company over to Google Workspace right now and support has been telling me my signup issues will be "resolved in 48 hours or less." What a joke. And this after we're leaving AWS Workmail because of bounced emails. No luck with signing up so far.
- Ekaros 6y agoSLA of less than 99,5%... Or if there is multiple issues even sub 99%... That really is a joke...
- joering2 6y agoConsider yourself lucky. I have some ad words in "approval" porocess for 6 months now. I kid you not - every Friday I receive email stating that the update will be send to me on Monday (insert date here). Then nothing happens on Monday until Friday comes and I get exactly same copy, only date is different. At this point I literally laugh. About your query I gather that you are concerned about your Ads Disapproval for your Google Ads Account. Observation I understand that this is taking a bit longer as we are working with a limited staff due to Global pandemic and there is another team who reviews the account so there can be a slight delay in the decision I apologize for the inconvenience caused as I understand this is not the answer which you are looking for but be rest assured I will get back to you on coming Friday 12/18/2020 end of business day. For any further assistance, I am just an email away. Sincerely,
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- mapgrep 6y agoI use Helm for email. It’s a silent little server in my living room routed via Amazon (using a TLS cert that lives in my living room). I’d say about every three or four months it goes down for 5 minutes if I need to reboot my wifi router. I use it for privacy (am a fan) but I feel pretty smug knowing I’m getting better reliability too. At least this month :) No affiliation with the company. https://www.thehelm.com/ https://www.thehelm.com/
- ttul 6y agoI remember seeing this when it first popped up on HN. Very cool. Home internet is pretty reliable these days and my sense is that it’s getting better, not worse, as people value their internet connectivity more. Is your data backed up anywhere in case your Helm box burns in a fire?
- mapgrep 6y agoHelm comes with free backup. Fully encrypted so only you can access. Still I’d love to turn it off. I have all my email on my laptop, which is itself backed up. I only keep some weeks worth on the Helm to let devices download.
- xianwen 6y agoIs Microsoft's Live Mail (Outlook.com) more reliable than Gmail?
- freehunter 6y agoI use Outlook.com for my primary email and I’ve had a few more outages than with Gmail but nothing I would consider major. The major issue is Outlook.com’s spam filtering is drastically worse than Gmail, I get so much spam that would be just so obvious to any rudimentary spam filter, I mark them as spam in Outlook.com, and the next day I get the exact same email again.
- xianwen 6y agoI'm considering moving to Outlook.com.
- TonyTrapp 6y agoMaybe their spam filtering is worse, but they also block way more legitimate smaller mail servers for no good reasons. Every few months I have to send an appeal to them so that I can continue sending mails from my mail server. They claim that there were user complaints about spam but it's pretty much impossible. I think they just silently blacklist smaller mail servers periodically and hope that they can fight spam that way. Obviously they can't. So if you want to be able to receive emails from smaller mail servers - don't switch to Microsoft.
- pmlnr 6y agoIt always have been. You also get more spam, along with those that should not have been marked spam, but gmail does.
- sorokod 6y agoGmail service details: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8... All good now apparently
- lostmsu 6y agoImagine surprise reading this after a whole day of productive freelance-related email exchanges that went seemingly without issues, and wondering if all important stuff was received. By the end of the thread I wondered why it was not affected, until I remembered my small business email is actually on Exchange 365 :-D
- Havoc 6y agoSide note - why don't google status updates contain a timezone. You'd think that they'd have some awareness of you know...global business...many users in many timezones. > We will provide an update by 12/15/20, 10:30 PM
- NautilusWave 6y agoI bet it adjusts for time zone automatically, as I see: > We will provide an update by 12/15/20, 5:30 PM
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- mdturnerphys 6y agoAt the bottom: "All times are shown in your local timezone unless otherwise noted."
- dannyw 6y agoJust mistakenly disputed a transaction because of this. I have been working with a mediocre freelancer who didn’t reply to my list of remediation items. When I followed up today, I got the “this email account does not exist” error from Gmail and proceeded to dispute on PayPal. I only found out through hacker news that this was a Gmail bug. Google, I expect a follow up retraction of the incorrect error messages. It’s one thing to give a temporary error. It’s another to say “this email account does not exist”.
- ttul 6y agoEmail sender here (on behalf of about 2.5 million domains). We noticed the issue and mitigated it by transforming the 5xx error into a 4xx error so that messages to Google are re-queues instead of being permfailed. But even with this intervention, the ticket volume was insane...
- bambam24 6y agoI been informed that, During this outage google engineers spotted trying to balance a tree.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoThis wouldn’t have happened with Google Wave.
- crazypython 6y agoRemember, free and open source software is more reliable: (https://www.gnu.org/software/reliability.en.html https://www.gnu.org/software/reliability.en.html) "One reason is that free software gets the whole community involved in working together to fix problems. Users not only report bugs, they even fix bugs and send in fixes. Users work together, conversing by email, to get to the bottom of a problem and make the software work trouble-free." And Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS) takes away your freedom: (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...) "The basic point is, you can have control over a program someone else wrote (if it's free), but you can never have control over a service someone else runs, so never use a service where in principle a program would do. With free software, we, the users, take back control of our computing. Proprietary software still exists, but we can exclude it from our lives and many of us have done so. However, we are now offered another tempting way to cede control over our computing: Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS). For our freedom's sake, we have to reject that too. With SaaSS, the server operator can change the software in use on the server. He ought to be able to do this, since it's his computer; but the result is the same as using a proprietary application program with a universal back door: someone has the power to silently impose changes in how the user's computing gets done. Thus, SaaSS is equivalent to running proprietary software with spyware and a universal back door. It gives the server operator unjust power over the user, and that power is something we must resist."
- organsnyder 6y agoI ran my own mail server for 15 years. It was not more reliable than Google or Microsoft (my current provider). > never use a service where in principle a program would do Email is definitely a service.
- hannofcart 6y ago> However, we are now offered another tempting way to cede control over our computing: Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS). Don't agree with this bit. You are ceding control of your data for sure, but this isn't quite the same as running a proprietary piece of software on your machine which you have no idea what it's doing. Ceding control of data is also worrisome I agree, but giving control of your data to a custodian you trust in exchange for said custodian promising its careful curation is a trade-off that most people would find acceptable. Some won't, and I respect that, but the advocacy above might be counterproductive to most people who take it and try hosting their own email servers.
- rangoon626 6y agoThe less google services we use, the better
- izgzhen 6y agoIt seems that Gmail is no longer a priority of Google, which is actually reasonable. Email provider is hardly a growing business anymore, and the market is also full of small players. How much gmail user will bother to transfer to other services? Even paying ones? I think minimal. When will Gmail be irrelevant? Probably when email is irrelevant.
- notabul 6y agoWhat should I use instead?
- reilly3000 6y agoI'm glad to have found this thread, but its kept me up cleaning out thousands of "bounced" blocks from the last 2 day's suppression lists. They are both @gmail.com and gSuite/Workplace domains, and incidentally a ton of random blocks from Comcast as well from users that have months of open history. This blew away about 10% of our newsletter and marketing subscribers. I can't imagine the time you're having if you send to millions of Google accounts. Pardon me for being conspiratorial, but I have to say that the timing of these particular issues is of concern in light of the massive attacks the US government and others have faced this week. It seems adversaries would have plenty of fun if they got a new toy that could mess with the user/resource permission mapping at Google would want to use it to go after inboxes to do email confirmations. Even those this is 99% likely to be a DevOps chore that created an SRE nightmare, I'll allow myself believing 1% this was SecOps locking down huge swaths of accounts to mitigate a mass email verification attack.
- coolgod 6y agoHave you considered the possibility these "attacks" occured and were detected months before but were only announced recently? Could it be that some people have a motive to spin some stories during these politically sensitive times?
- reilly3000 6y agoYa that’s quite possible, and probable given how well they are documented to the senate. Dizzying times we live in. The flow of information is dammed and diverted by so many different actors with different motives. Still, I have good enough reasons to think that some sort of Pandora’s box of backdoors was opened this fall and its fallout is yet to be felt.
- dpeterson 6y agoLinkedIn telling me I could lose my linkedin account because they can't reach my gmail email address.
- haint_ 6y agoWill there be a public post mortem?
- tsg 6y agoNow showing as fixed fwiw.
- bluecalm 6y agoIt seems it's even worse for gmail to Gmail communication. Some of our company emails disappeared without any kind of bump information which causes a lot of frustration among our customers. I hope they fix it soon, it's a mess of massive proportion.
- globular-toast 6y agoI've been using Gmail since the invite only beta. In the past year I've had several occasions where important messages get somehow "lost" in the UI. The ones I've noticed are messages I've been waiting for, so I've gone and dug them out of "all mail" in most cases. They just wouldn't show in the normal inbox despite not being flagged as spam. This outage has now convinced me I need a new email provider.
- OpuRahman 6y agoIn Bangladesh we faced serious problems last night.
- gpmcadam 6y agoPeople will suggest running your own mail server, and if you have the time and energy then definitely do that. But the next best thing you can do is simply just use your own domain. That way, you can at least decide to migrate your email elsewhere. Don't use the free domains you get from things like gmail or other providers, because then you have to _change_ your email address, and not just your MX records.
- oakfr 6y agoGood luck getting the same quality of service as gmail with your own mail server. The fact that gmail fails every so often (extremely rarely actually) is a good sign: zero failure would mean that they are over-investing in quality and losing flexibility. Gmail only needs to be as good as the best web service out there.
- gpmcadam 6y agoBut you can pay for email from other providers like Fastmail and Proton and just have your own domain with MX pointing at them. Services are better in my opinion when you pay for them and you’re not the product.
- fwn 6y ago> Services are better in my opinion when you pay for them and you’re not the product. Services also tend to be better if lock-in effects on customers are low. ... and using your own domain for email does reduce lock-in significantly. unrelated: the link in your profile does not seem to work.
- ssn 6y agoStill having error trying to fetch email from one Gmail account to another via POP3. Seem different from the error described in the post link.
- dkarp 6y agoGoogle Stadia was also down yesterday for a couple of hours[1]. It appeared to be related to loading user accounts into the game. Some games couldn't load at all, others worked for a short time and others were unaffected. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/kdr2ps/its_not_just_you_stadia_is_down/gfy8tnr/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/kdr2ps/its_not_just...
- anuraj 6y agoCOVID seems to have possessed Google - Services are down, Android Apps that used to take 24 hours for approval are now taking ages - and as usual no support forthcoming. Is Google unravelling?
- cmbailey 6y agoOne @gmail.com account shows no email received from 2:17pm ET Dec 15 to 6:05am ET Dec 16. I normally receive ~4 emails per hour, throughout the day and night. After I realized there might be a fault, I sent myself test messages around 6pm ET on Dec 15 and Gmail bounced them with the error: > 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser x62si100799otb.139 - gsmtp
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