Google have been having a few problems lately haven’t they? First Google Mail, or GMail, went offline a couple of weeks ago for a good few hours, sparking concern for businesses who rely on the service. Now Google have confirmed that once again GMail is unavailable to a “small” number of users.
Instead of emails from mum and dad, these users this morning have been faced with an Error 500 message with a numeric code 67.
Google have released a statement to the BBC saying, “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are having difficulty accessing their accounts.”
It goes on to say, “The team is working as quickly as they can to resolve the problem. We know how important e-mail is to our users, so we take issues like this very seriously.”
The free email service is used by more than 113 million users worldwide making it something of a big deal when it hits the skids.
Google’s Apps Status Dashboard still shows a service disruption to GMail, but you can keep checking it for latest updates.
Have you been affected by this second round of offline GMail? Leave us a comment and let us know.
Source: BBC News, IT Pro Portal
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Yesterday, Error 502: Numeric Code: 17;
Today, Temporary Error (500) Numeric Code 67
Frustrating. But fortunately, only my personal mail and not my business mail. Still frustrating!
I didn’t even get an error, it just kept loading and unfortunately it was only my personal mail too.
I hope they get this sorted as its really worrying that Google have managed to break Gmail twice.
lol- at least they’re varying their errors to keep us interested!
Cannot get to my e mail account?Keeps saying redirecting and then nothing
I had exactly the same problem when it went down but at the moment my GMail is okay…
Once again we can’t get on to googlemail!
I don’t seem to be having a problem at the moment so it may just be a handful of users out again :(
A handful of users! I have been in that same handful three times now!What is the problem Google?!!! Try harder & FASTER.
The Google App Status Dashboard (http://www.google.com/appsstatus#) seems to show that things are working well for everyone so it sounds like this time not even Google know about the problem.
Cheers for that TazzaHall, yeah it seems like they didn’t know about it.
I’m gonna bookmark the app status page too.
for the last couple of weeks, i have been typically getting access to my googlemail account for around 4 – 5 minutes, before i get the ‘unable to connect to googlemail’ error message. this typically happens when i attempt to do anything other than simply read an email. for example, reply, save or delete. this is incredibly frustrating and google have mae no attempt to contact me with either an explanation or apology!
One “solution” to the gmail problems that have been happening is to forward all of your emails automatically to another free account (yahoo, hotmail etc.)
To do this you just need to go to Gmail > Settings > Forwarding to have every email copied to another address as soon as it reaches your inbox. It’s a pretty basic way of getting a backup of your emails, but it’s easy to set-up and access from where ever you are still.
and again
And again its not working…why do I always get hit! And I need my mail…its my work!!!
again
I cannot access my gmail account because of the same reason,
that’s terrible and google has to solve it.
i need my mail, and it bothers again :|
Started having problems loading my e-mail accounts. When I did get in, received a pop-up message stating, “We are having technical difficulties. This has been going on for two weeks, and they need to get these problems resolved immediately.
Thanks!