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By: hoolipot

hoolipot — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:42:34 +0000

Let’s remember that email is a business tool – and so telling people that they need to maintain POP access or use IMAP on their mobile phone is kinda irrelevant – unless they are the technical staff entrusted with keeping this going in the first place.

BUSINESS people understand that “glitches” like this happen (whether it be with their email, their electricity supply, their telephone or their favorite lunch spot) and deal with it. It doesn’t mean that they have to like it – but they can deal with it – especially when its handled as well as it was by Google.

By: Scott E

Scott E — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:16:55 +0000

Some reasons why it wasn’t so bad was because the actually mail protocol was not down just the interface to the mail server. I was still able to use imap just fine on my iPhone

By: Sonal Maheshwari

Sonal Maheshwari — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:05:11 +0000

I believe it's just that people need some thing to talk and discuss for long. People remember It's a machine!!!!!! It will break down sometime, So for me the big part is how long it took to fix it back, and honestly it is fine as it didn't took that long. A lesson for the Google in future though. Sonal Maheshwari USourceIT your single source for all IT needs

By: Astrochimp

Astrochimp — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:48:33 +0000

Don’t depend on a web client for email, because if you do, a GFail like the one described leaves you without access to any of your email, or calendar etc. Instead, use a rich client, do local backups that are robust against hard drive failure (much cheaper in the long run than doing it to the “cloud”), and access your rich client remotely.

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By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:19:41 +0000

Or just enable POP access, even if you aren’t going to use it. POP didn’t stop working.

By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:18:32 +0000

I used to use yahoo mail, and I remember it being down once for almost a full 24 hours. And that was the Plus service. People need to chill out. From the uproar you’d think Gmail had been down for a week.

By: Sol Irvine

Sol Irvine — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:37:21 +0000

The biggest lesson learned from Gfail: keep an IMAP client running in parallel (and more or less up to date), because you’ll need it when the web interface bites the dust.

This last one bit me hard when I wasn’t able to lead a conference call with the notes in my sent mail. My IMAP client hadn’t been refreshed in months, too.

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By: Ralph

Ralph — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:36:49 +0000

Isn’t hotmail or yahoo mail still a bit larger than gmails? We don’t seem to get the same hype when they are down, or do they just run a better network?