Gmail has become unusably slow
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Gmail has become unusably slow
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Re: Gmail has become unusably slow
#2For you.
Re: Gmail has become unusably slow
#3I was having the exact same problem when my account was using around 85% of the allowed storage.
I also had another account with very little emails stored and it was pretty fast.
My solution (quite lame): I redirected the "full" account to the other one and started to only use the later. So far no more problems...
Re: Gmail has become unusably slow
#4Would be curious to know if pop and imap are also slow
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#6It's so rare that I use the actual GMail interface that I often forget how it even works, or how slow it is. Shortly after GMail allowed IMAP access, I hooked it up to my Mail.app and don't even bother with the web interface. It's so much more convenient, and it's rare that I've have problems when the cries of "GMail is down again" come about.
Re: Gmail has become unusably slow
#7Google says they're aware of the speed issue, that they have a solution, and that they're fixing it.
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#8The Gmail team is most definitely aware of this and a fix is in the works. At SXSW this year there was a panel with four or five Gmail team members and this came up — they said it's related to the size of your inbox, and that it has a lot of Googlers complaining internally too, since many of them have the oldest/large accounts.
Also see http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/gmail-slow/, though it has basically the same info.
Re: Gmail has become unusably slow
#9Would be curious to know if pop and imap are also slow
For me, IMAP is not slow at all. In fact, I almost never have a problem with GMail over IMAP at all - and I have 3 separate email accounts (some under google apps for your domain) that all check every 30 minutes or so).
Re: Gmail has become unusably slow
#10It continues to amaze me that a company as technically brilliant and pervasive as Google is so spectacularly bad at even rudimentary customer service.