Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/11/12/gmail_down/
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The issues kicked off at around 8.30 UTC and left some users flummoxed, with many taking to the anger echo chamber that is Twitter.
Gmail email outage, had issues sending emails,sitting in my outbox as queued and not sending at all. — Karen Dean (@karensugarlips) [4]November 12, 2021
It seemed to particularly affect the Mountain View mammoth's [5]IMAP and SMTP [6]servers , so people [7]using a separate email client to get at their Gmail had a harder time.
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[9]Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment
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According to Google's own [12]status page , the problem also affected Google's Calendar, Groups, and [13]Meet services – as well as [14]Talk , sorry, [15]Chat , if anyone still cares.
It seems the big G itself no longer cares about [16]Allo – it's not on the status page. Hangouts is apparently fine, which will be a relief for [17]all three users .
As of about 11am UTC, Google said the problems had been resolved.
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We have asked the company to comment on the technical gremlins behind today's wobble. A spokesperson sent us a statement:
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“We are aware of a service disruption to some Google Cloud services, including Google Workspace, causing access issues. This disruption began Friday, November 12 around 08:30 am UTC. We have addressed the initial issue and restored access for most users. We are still monitoring the situation. Updates can be tracked on our status dashboards for Google Cloud and Google Workspace.” ®
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[2] https://downdetector.co.za/status/gmail/
[3] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/422568-big-gmail-outage.html
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[5] https://twitter.com/MarcoKolbas/status/1459085431216214020
[6] https://twitter.com/uberboffin/status/1459089128541331458
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/23/getting_most_gmail/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/russian_crims_lured_youtubers_with/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/12/google_next_roundup/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/09/microsoft_adds_features_to_teams/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/09/mcdonalds_database_credentials_blunder/
[12] https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/17/gmail_inbox_meet/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2015/02/18/gtalk_is_dead_long_live_gtalk/
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Message to our users
It seems that Google has some issues with the following services:
- Google Mail
- Google Calendar
- Google Chat
- Google Meet
That is all, but isn't it enough?
Bastards, the lot of them.
Well users might be gnashing their teeth in frustration but spare a thought for Google.
Think of all the data they could have been slurping from all those emails and messages.
Money doesn't grow on trees you know and they have a duty to turn all that data into bonuses for the C suite.
Oh no!
How will I access all the American medical care spam that, just being images, bypasses their spam filters??
"a relief for all three users"
Methinks there may bit a wee bit more, especially since I noticed, the last time I logged into my Gmail account, I was logged in to Hangouts.
It would appear that Google, in its vast goodness, has decided that, once you log into Hangouts, you can no longer log out.
I guess the top brass were tired of seeing shrinking usage, so they told the trolls in the basement to do something about that.
Alright fess up
Who's gone and dun a deployment on a Friday
Ah! And I thought my automated SMTP sending from home devices was getting IP blocked today - well, it is, but not for the reason I thought!
Loss of service is bad enough, but a spurious "critical security alert" is ridiculous
First I knew was an e-mail:
"Subject: Critical security alert"
"Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened."
Why can't Google show the IP address that the attempt came from? It would have saved me a lot of worry.
Then I checked my logs: lots of these messages starting at 08:31 GMT, triggered by fetchmail
System error during SSL_connect(): Connection reset by peer
pop.gmail.com: SSL connection failed.
Connection errors for this poll:#012name 0: connection to pop.gmail.com:pop3s [2a00:1450:400c:c0b::6c/995] failed: Connection refused
Bastards!
I just assumed Thunderbird had updated and Google were being utter wankers and blacklisting it again so I checked on my phone and no-one loved me so I looked through all the usual Mozilla shit and then accidentally opened up Thunderbird again and and it was all happy working again.
It did however make me wonder how you can use a phone for work - I have around three hundred mail filters and associated folder heirarchy which I'd need a fucking big phone to implement.
Never noticed...
GMail address is for spam as of years ago
Gcal reduced to deep-freeze as of Jan this year and now have my own calendering server (works with Davx and Android)
In fact, Google have pissed me off so much with "give your date of birth to comply with the law" notifications that I've pissed off their primary apps from use...
Serves them right for not using only Google approved browser to access Google's email. I'll get my coat.