Google are great. Great but not perfect. I love GMail, it singlehandedly made webmail a viable alternative to the traditional e-mail clients such as Outlook and Pegasus. I also use Gmail for my own domains, it gets around any hosting e-mail limits and provides a much more elegant webmail solution for clients, even going as far as being very Blackberry friendly.
On the other hand when Google do have a problem it can be a real pain in the ass. For example GMail is down again today. The POP/IMAP and SMTP servers are working fine but the GMail web interface is goosed and everything that goes with it, this leaves us with no e-mail and nobody to complain to. If there is ONE thing that can be said for paying for your e-mail service it’s that there is some come back. The paid-by-advertising model doesn’t allow that level of support so we just have to hold on and wait for the Google gods to flick the switch that gets GMail working again. Come on boys, hurry it up!
7 Responses to “GMail Is Down Again”
Henrik Blunck
February 24, 2009
Do as I have done. Download the FREE Mozilla Thunderbird, and you get the full benefits of using both POP and SMTP services without bothering for a web interface.
When you create good filters, you can literally filter everything automatically and stop worrying.
Now that’s a piece of FREE advice that really works. I love sharing good ideas.
|Paul B
February 24, 2009
I need access to my mail from 7 different devices, I also have over 300 Gmail hosted accounts to monitor – I do use Thunderbird (via IMAP – POP with GMail is a waste of time) for my 3 main accounts but for the rest it’s just not practical at all.
I have my own custom software for monitoring all my accounts and handling any sign in so it’s all very automated, well apart from when GMail goes down
|Henrik Blunck
February 24, 2009
OK. I had hoped to have given you new inspiration, but then let’s be happy others might have learned something new.
|Paul B
February 24, 2009
Keep em coming Henrik, I’m always up for learning as much as possible
|Joey Logano
March 16, 2009
Over 300 accounts? WOW, I dont think I would be able to manage that many even in a single day, lol.
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