hi all,

 

you possibly had problems sending emails to gmail users yesterday and overnight. We certainly did  I get a two emails for every failure as well.

 

Here is a copy of a update from another mail provider. I personally switched to and use for BRISKODA internal mail. We send email via Amazon SES.
 

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Starting at around 4:30PM New York (10:30PM Zurich), Gmail suffered a global outage.

A catastrophic failure at Gmail is causing emails sent to Gmail to permanently fail and bounce back. The error message from Gmail is the following:

550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. 

This is a global issue, and it impacts all email providers trying to send email to Gmail, not just ProtonMail. 

Because Gmail is sending a permanent failure, our mail servers will not automatically retry sending these messages (this is standard practice at all email services for handling permanent failures). 

We are closely monitoring the situation. At this time, little can be done until Google fixes the problem. We recommend attempting to resend the messages to Gmail users when Google has fixed the problem. You can find the latest status from Google's status page: 

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab 

Best Regards,
The ProtonMail Team 

P.S. You might also consider asking your contacts who are still using Gmail to switch to ProtonMail for more private communications

 

 

—end

 

i left the ps in as it is a good service and a handy one to have for private, encrypted emails eg sending bank details.

 

while we’re here make sure your email password is very secure and not used on other sites  

 

 

Edited 16 December, 20205 yr by ColinD

That was Monday unless there was another outage yesterday? Loads of people on the Twittersphere who were in the middle of editing docs lost access.
It was the whole range of  Google services; I couldn't access my pics or drive. 

Yep Monday and last night  well afternoon, it continued into the night. My phone got very tired of alerting me

Edited 16 December, 20205 yr by ColinD

I must have managed to avoid yesterday aft/ eve then somehow. It was certainly a global PITA and showed how dependent a lot of people have become on Googles services. 
I saw lots of people asking about other online doc sharing platforms as an alternative. Who knows if they'll be as robust as G's services? 

They won’t be. And the time to migrate will be more than the time they lost. Lid once the other service gets an influx, you hit the limit and have to pay... assuming it does not falter under a thundering herd of users.

 

google has its place.

 

I pay for a few services I could get from google for free... but what is free... I bet 99% of those stuck are free users. 
 

but t hi en we see google in June changing it’s free offering tiers anyway so free isn’t so free going forwards.

Google apps too...

 

I’ve heard various explanations from it was a quota oops, to it was a state hack to find out which Chinese intelligence agents were being watched.

 

Cloud, all the downsides of a Centralised mainframe with few of the upsides.

 

It is why Hybrid, with critical applications or at least one site under your control is probably a far better bet than all cloud.

Edited 17 December, 20205 yr by cheezemonkhai