Gmail, Google’s e-mail service, is offline for many users right now. Those wondering if they are alone in experiencing the outage can find comfort on Twitter, says C/Net, which is up and sizzling with Gmail down alerts. To track the spread of the outage (and to find out when it is corrected), take a look Twitter Search, which is posting dozens of items a second about the outage. Gmail’s business e-mail service is also apparently down.
Users already logged into Gmail when the outage started may be able to read messages in their inbox, although sending messages generates an error. [No nothin' at the DailyWireless tower].
The Gmail Blog explains https, but so far nothing about the GMail outage. Https keeps your mail encrypted as it travels between your web browser and servers, so someone sharing your favorite coffee shop’s public wifi can’t read it.
UPDATE: It’s working okay for me, now, in Portland, Oregon.
