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Gmail - Fun while it lasted

I’m switching all my email back to the IMAP accounts on my server, and using Apple Mail to check my email again. For the past 3 days Gmail has been terribly unreliable for me, on multiple computers. Messages weren’t being moved, I had to click the send button 5 or 10 times before it would finally send the message, and many times I just couldn’t login at all. I get a message telling me that Gmail is unavailable, and to cross my fingers and try again in a few minutes.

I haven’t heard reports of this very much elsewhere, so maybe it is just the server that they put my account on or something.

Granted this is of course still a Beta period for the service, and I’m sure it says somewhere in Google’s use policy that it is beta and you should expect downtime and so forth, so they’ll probably iron-out the issues eventually, but for now I just need to check my email whenever I want, not whenever the servers are up and running.

I still think Gmail is great, feature-wise, and will definitely miss the super fast searching of old messages, but searching your messages slowly is better than not being able to access them at all, don’t you think?

I also haven’t received anymore Gmail Invites in a couple weeks, maybe they’re having load balancing issues so they’ve stopped inviting people, and are trying to improve the speed and reliability.

I would have to agree with you. There has been down time with the service. I am just using it now on a trial bases.