rpm Admin Staff member Joined Jul 22, 2003 Messages 66,805 Reaction score 5,057 Location Johannesburg Feb 24, 2009 #1 Gmail outage Google’s Gmail downtime causes chaos Click to expand...
LazyLion King of de Jungle Joined Mar 17, 2005 Messages 107,422 Reaction score 9,942 Location District 9 Feb 24, 2009 #2 Google’s Gmail downtime causes chaos Click to expand... ... for some but not ALL users! Go install that Offline app now!
Google’s Gmail downtime causes chaos Click to expand... ... for some but not ALL users! Go install that Offline app now!
xrapidx Honorary Master Joined Feb 16, 2007 Messages 42,188 Reaction score 4,038 Location Cape Town Feb 24, 2009 #3 damn annoying...cause all my work mail is forwarded to gmail Strangely - I can see the mail arriving using GTalk - but can't get into the mailbox.
damn annoying...cause all my work mail is forwarded to gmail Strangely - I can see the mail arriving using GTalk - but can't get into the mailbox.
G Garth Massey Well-Known Member Joined Jun 4, 2008 Messages 120 Reaction score 1 Feb 24, 2009 #4 google wont load in fire fox but in ie8 and 7 all is good .....
T The_Unbeliever Honorary Master Joined Apr 19, 2005 Messages 103,193 Reaction score 10,233 Location Nkaaaaandla Feb 24, 2009 #5 It is annoying. The lesson learnt here is this : Cloud computing is good and well... but you must also have offline applications at hand just in case the cloud gets broken by George.
It is annoying. The lesson learnt here is this : Cloud computing is good and well... but you must also have offline applications at hand just in case the cloud gets broken by George.
M MrG Executive Member Joined Feb 12, 2005 Messages 6,007 Reaction score 21 Feb 24, 2009 #6 Its a Beta? What do people except. lol
S Sackboy Executive Member Joined Dec 14, 2008 Messages 5,598 Reaction score 5 Location LittleBIGPlanet Feb 24, 2009 #7 It's working as normal for me in FF3. I can get the inbox. I haven't tried to send anything yet.
DblD Senior Member Joined Aug 6, 2003 Messages 841 Reaction score 0 Location /\/¯¯¯\/\ Feb 24, 2009 #8 No problem with gmail here... its all you M$ lovers that got affected... Lolies..
G gifs Expert Member Joined Mar 1, 2007 Messages 1,478 Reaction score 74 Feb 24, 2009 #9 Gmail was off earlier but has started working about 30 minutes ago on my side
T theJonster Well-Known Member Joined Mar 26, 2007 Messages 415 Reaction score 2 Location Cape Town Feb 24, 2009 #10 i tried all 3 browsers with no luck...i think it was certain accounts....most fail!
B bantu Active Member Joined Dec 10, 2008 Messages 65 Reaction score 0 Location Port Elizabeth Feb 24, 2009 #11 GMail GMail is back now, it has been working since 3pm.
B Bcm Senior Member Joined Aug 2, 2005 Messages 687 Reaction score 0 Location Cape Town Feb 24, 2009 #12 Its was down for about 3 hours from about midday to 14:45 Only the web-client was down, the POP servers were working, not sure about IMAP. Least they got it back quickly. Nothing to see here, move along.
Its was down for about 3 hours from about midday to 14:45 Only the web-client was down, the POP servers were working, not sure about IMAP. Least they got it back quickly. Nothing to see here, move along.
M Mamajyot Senior Member Joined Feb 6, 2009 Messages 840 Reaction score 64 Location Somewhere in ZA....... Feb 24, 2009 #13 I had no problems for the whole day. I agree that everyone should use the offline version via gears.
H Hein_JHB Senior Member Joined Apr 11, 2005 Messages 584 Reaction score 11 Location Randburg Feb 24, 2009 #14 I also had problems with gmail this morning from 11:30am untill about 2:30pm, 3:00pm but it is working now
I also had problems with gmail this morning from 11:30am untill about 2:30pm, 3:00pm but it is working now
xrapidx Honorary Master Joined Feb 16, 2007 Messages 42,188 Reaction score 4,038 Location Cape Town Feb 24, 2009 #15 Don't know what browser has to do with it... ?
F Flint Well-Known Member Joined Jun 2, 2005 Messages 266 Reaction score 0 Location Gauteng, South Africa Feb 24, 2009 #16 GMail was inaccessible for me in the browser (FF3) but IMAP was working fine.
xrapidx Honorary Master Joined Feb 16, 2007 Messages 42,188 Reaction score 4,038 Location Cape Town Feb 24, 2009 #17 Nope - my IMAP wasn't working - hence the question about why browser make matters
Prof.Merlin Expert Member Joined Aug 2, 2006 Messages 1,695 Reaction score 201 Location Netherlands Feb 24, 2009 #18 think it just broke again
T Th0r Well-Known Member Joined Feb 13, 2009 Messages 161 Reaction score 0 Feb 24, 2009 #19 xrapidx said: Nope - my IMAP wasn't working - hence the question about why browser make matters Click to expand... I believe the prob is with their webmail client, thats why browsers can make a dif BTW I havent had any issues...
xrapidx said: Nope - my IMAP wasn't working - hence the question about why browser make matters Click to expand... I believe the prob is with their webmail client, thats why browsers can make a dif BTW I havent had any issues...
D DeadCore Expert Member Joined Nov 13, 2008 Messages 3,996 Reaction score 655 Location Pretoria Feb 24, 2009 #20 it work with the normal internet browser but not firefox