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Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by miyuru » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

gjanezic wrote: post #6

AWS SES just blocked our account due to high number of bounces :(

Fortunately I had email bounce notifications setup and to a none gmail address, so had time to stop the email queue.

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by Spare_account » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

kzrdude wrote: post #25

systemvoltage wrote: post #16

Side note: Love the 2010-era web design. Wtf happened? Everything got bloated, buttons got huge and whitespace took over the screen real-estate.

I can't see the buttons (mobile)

That's the point, this page is readable and information-dense. There is no bloating

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by robarr » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

wenbin wrote: post #9

"Type: Permanent; SubType: General; Code: smtp; 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser y128si147264pfg.177 - gsmtp"

Yes, hard bounces even between Gmail addresses.

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by e15ctr0n » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

SMTP seems to be down as well. "Login to server smtp.gmail.com failed." using an email client

IMAP seems to be working, though.

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by vlovich123 » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:52 PM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #22

wwb099 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Touch on smaller screens became the primary interface. Fingers fat, buttons big.

Yeah, I get that. But why punish the Desktop users with mobile interface? We used to punish Mobile users with Desktop interface back then, we just reversed the problem, didn't actually solve it. They should be 2 separate things. 2 separate css files with @media select. 2 separate button sizes and styles. I know what happened - designers got lazy.

Doing all the work twice is expensive. It’s not just the actual work of doing the design, but then you’re 2x testing costs too (unless you YOLO one of the modalities). More cost effective and better quality result to make a choice to make the platforms more uniform rather than trying to optimize for both. This obviously only holds when there’s a massive disparity in revenue. If your PC/laptop users make up a non-trivial parts of revenue it can start to make sense (but again, generally only if doing so will help you retain that market or get better revenues). The other thing unifying things does is it helps engineering and design teams by removing complexity.

All of the above is general trends of how these decisions are made. There will always be counter examples or situations those aren’t good ideas (or that someone has made a mistake applying a lesson to the wrong situation).

Saying an entire group of people is lazy or dumb is not a particularly insightful way of looking at anything that helps your understanding of the situation or learning what kind of results different incentives yield.

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by throw1234651234 » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:53 PM UTC

e15ctr0n wrote: post #34

SMTP seems to be down as well. "Login to server smtp.gmail.com failed." using an email client IMAP seems to be working, though.

SMTP went down for 5 minutes. Our service was able to re-connect automatically and has been working fine, if that helps you.

Could be inconsistent though.

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by Spare_account » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:53 PM UTC

cowkingdeluxe wrote: post #3

Any email sent to my gmail is getting permanently bounced. Says my email does not exist at gmail.

It's inconsistent for me, I've had two failures and one success in quick succession

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by evad3r » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:55 PM UTC

throw1234651234 wrote: post #4

We are using a gmail inbox to process some business-critical emails in bulk. I guess those emails will be lost forever? Thankfully, we have backups, but we will have to move them to the inbox or elsewhere to have them processed. Edit: As an update, we usually have at least 100 emails come in every hour, and I am seeing none since 4:02 pm EST

Blimey, why use a free Gmail account for a business critical operation? That's just asking for trouble.

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by jasonjayr » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

AnssiH wrote: post #30

j-wags wrote: post #20

Over the past 24 hours, I've had GitHub request that I re-verify my gmail three times (roughly 22 hours ago, 2 hours ago, and now), each time resetting my primary email's status to "Undeliverable" and "Unverified" The triggering event may be an email bounce. I get a lot of github notifications sent to my email, and the failure of just one/a few may trigger the reverification.

Yep, there was a very similar event yesterday, approx. 22 hours ago: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=10...

I figured one major incident for Google was enough for the day! We had a bunch of email bounce to @gmail domains yesterday in that timeframe.

Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by dimeatree » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

It has been fun explaining to customers that G-mail has been having issues.