آخر تحديث : 24-08-2005 الساعة 08:54 م
Gmail service is great, but it is gradually becoming too much of pain lately. Right now, its returning this:
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
Cross our fingers??? is that what it boils down to? crossing fingers and make a wish, just to read our mail..???
Can you beleive that google would be that much careless about our mail?
This dreadful error page used to be very rare, but the frequency is growing…
Its too scarey, when you depend on such service, to find that you can not access your mail whenever you want to. You now never know if the server is up tomorrow..! Not much reliable? thats not what we expect from a company like google. Gmail service is fine, but I advise everyone to backup their mail ofline, using your favorite mail client (mozzila thunderbird, for example).
Thats why it’s in BETA.
Indeed it is in ‘BETA’, but when people start to rely on your service, it isn’t wise to have it down for ~15 hours. When clearly the error message states: “Check back in a few minutes”, instead, they’ve had it down for many hours. Possibly, instead of a falsified promise of ‘a few minutes’, how about displaying a legitimate error page.
We are approaching at least 24 hours now that its been down this time. Is it just me?
A friend said she can get into hers fine. Mine, no. We are on different servers apparently, and i am unlucky at the moment. Anyone else have any updates?
I didn’t experience any down times lately
Still down…tried multiple computers and browsers. Last time i checked my mail was thursday afternoon.
I’ve had the same problem with Gmail for the last 24 hours. It’s a damn kick in the teeth that Gmail doesn’t make any kind of an update available to the folks who rely on their service. At a bare minimum, they should be posting information on the mail Gmail page explaining the situation and giving an approximate time by which the service will be back up and running. Hell, do it on the main Google page if none of the Gmail pages are functional. But do something.
Seems like some banning or what.
i was unable to loging for last 20 hours, now i clean the cache and cookies and woa i get login page that i was not able to get earlier.
so i put my user name and password and i get kicked out. same error
server error blah blah blah. strangely i asked foe other people to check from their system and they all seems to be accesing it just fine, even just few min back. dunno what’s up with them but it surely there should be a clear message than cross your finger, i have better things to do that cross my fingers, it just that what i need to do is in the email that they not letting me access.
two things….at least i am not alone, unfortunately for all of us….and it is going to be rather difficult to do my performance tonight with my fingers crossed.
At least we have somewhere to vent if they arent going to tell us when they think we may be able to check our mail again.
I lost a mailbox once. the company with the server folded and one day…nothing. i dont like this feeling. is web mail really worth it?
A lot of people are turning to web mail, since broadband, coupled with a service like gmail, made it easier than mail clients. But to be on the safe side, everyone should backup their gmail accounts locally, using their free pop service, and a local mail client, like thunderbird or even outlook express. They would sure come in handy at times like this.
I am encountering the same error message –
“cross your fingers” — and have been since Friday, August 19, 2005 5pm. My two other gmail accounts work just fine; unfortunately, the most important gmail account is on the server that went down, and also contains the entire breadth of my PH.D. research information. I wish I had been wiser to back up locally on a computer or on a hard disk but I didn’t know this problem would last for over a day!
You could also set your gmail account to forward all your mail automatically to another account, as a backup. You’ll have 2 copies of all your mail then, in case one server went down.
Hi there,
it seems that this problem is already quite global. has anybody an idea when (and if) GMail can fix the problem?
I really would need some files from my gmail account – unfortunately I have saved some information just there.
I guess right now we just can wait …
I think this link could be interesting for all of us:
http://www.gmailforums.com/lofiversion/index.php/t11797.html
It seems that it can work after a while again.
… lets hope
I have tried everything on there. I am on mac. cant get in on mine or on a pc. no way no how. almost three days by now. And i was expecting imp emails from folks whosw address is only in gmail. Cant they get it together not to have this problem for so longor at least tell us something other than cross our fingers!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey everyone!
As the most of you I am really pissed off with google because of the last 3 days gmail awfull service!
Since friday morning I can’t get into my gmail account and I was expecting there a lot of very important and urgent work e-mails for the weekend.
I also know people with gmail accouns here, that are functioning normally, without any kind of trouble.
By the way, I am from Portugal so, as you can see, this bad situation is global…
I know it must be difficult for a business company to have so much servers that can “keep” all the millions of e-mail accounts with up to 2Gb, but please…. with their money I think this is a situation that shouldn’t happen for a company with that status….
Does anyone know if they have any e-mail for where we can write asking them explanations and arguing about all of this?
If you know pease answer me for my hotmail account [email protected]
This is a very tiny e-mail acconut, with only 2Mb as you know, but they NEVER left me without their e-mail service. Hotmail ALLWAYS worked very well for me.
Big kiss to everyone.
The problem seems to be global, but only on one server or something…
I can’t access my account, but some other people I know can.
I hope Google will fix this soon, cause there are mails in there, that can’t wait to long…
I’m from The Netherlands by the way…
Regards,
René
Well…Im in the us – atlanta, GA, and mine still isnt working either. And still crossing my fingers. fun fun fun.
I have been down since Friday as well. There are also numerous threads of people on google groups complaining about the same issue. I wonder if e-mails sent from our contacts during down period will be lost?
Yeah, me too. I’ve been trying for several days. Still no go. I’m in Australia, but I suspect it doesn’t matter where you log in from, it’s just a “server” down.
Hope it comes back up soon 🙁