Gmail is really down!

Gmail is back now after 1.5 hours of outage but read below what actually happened.

You’re not alone because Gmail is actually down for 20-30 minutes (4 PM EST) now and people are receiving “502 Server Error” message. This downtime is also being faced by Google Apps Mail service users.

Gmail was also having some turbulence issue earlier today as well; thus, this downtime probably could be a reason of that issue.

Google has updated its official Gmail blog with a post regarding this downtime:

We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain. We don’t usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind of information goes). Because this is impacting so many of you, we wanted to let you know we’re currently looking into the issue and hope to have more info to share here shortly. If you have IMAP or POP set up already, you should be able to access your mail that way in the meantime. We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and will get Gmail back up and running as soon as possible.

Google has also updated its twitter status:

UPDATE: IMAP/POP servers are working for some users including myself.

UPDATE: Some of users can access Gmail intermittently though the issue is still not yet resolved.

UPDATE: Gmail is back now though users still facing delay on sending mails (5:50 PM EST)

Story is still developing, so stay tuned.

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