Gmail down?

[bobquasit]

Gmail apparently went down sometime overnight. Or at least, I thought it did.

That was, I'll admit, kind of frustrating.

It was still down this morning. So I messed around, did a little experimenting, and found that the Gtalk stand-alone app was working. Very odd!

I contacted the Gmail support team, but before I received their automated and frankly unhelpful response, I figured something out: although the URL that I normally use to reach Gmail was dead both from home and from work ("Network Error"), there was an alternate URL that worked fine.

http://gmail.google.com/gmail = DEAD
http://mail.google.com/mail/ = FINE

I let the support team know. And you, of course.

Perhaps I'm the only person in the world who used that first URL. But if not, maybe this will help someone out.

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

I ran into the same thing in the wee hours of the morning when I was up with insomnia. I also did the URL change and now get in fine. Just wished they could have told us :-)

[rob-w.livejournal.com]

Might be something to do with the copyright issues they had with a UK based company?

[rob-w.livejournal.com]

edit: in reference to this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm

Just didn't know if the issues had spilled over?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Looks like that might be the explanation. I hadn't heard about this - thanks! Apparently Google is looking into it. If I hear anything, I'll post it.

[nakedfaery.livejournal.com]

I'm in the UK, and I've just started having this problem myself. I thought G Mail was down, and it wasn't. Now I've had to switch my home page and bookmarks. Most inconvienient.