GMail users

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:24 pm

From what I've read, GMail has received pretty good ratings from forum users. In fact, for the past two years it's been my email of choice. Over that period, I've changed all my accounts, and my families, to use GMail.

For the past several days, I haven't been able to log into GMail. Have been through a rather exhaustive trouble shooting process, but at the end of the day, no real success.

In checking various forums, it seems that I'm not the only one with GMail problems. I can find many users experiencing the same problems I'm having. It seems to me that GMail tends to push the envelope as far as their technology is concerned.

Not looking for problem solving advice - I'm moving back to a regular domain based email account under my control. Just sharing my experience with a suggestion that you might not want to put ALL your email eggs in the GMail basket - at a minimum set it up to allow POP access.

cheers

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:42 pm

What happens when you try to login? Just a blank page?

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:47 pm

Trond wrote:What happens when you try to login? Just a blank page?

Various things. Sometimes a "loading" message in the top right corner, sometimes it goes to a screen saying "this is taking a long time - visit our help center (which I'm also unable to access).

Net, net, everything results in a time out or blank screen. have tried on numerous computers in my home network, cleared cookies, cache, tried different mtu settings, etc.

Net - no Gmail access for me. I know of other people who have no problems, but in my household, GMail is (soon to be) a thing of the past.

Now just have to select a good e-mail client:)

cheers

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:59 pm

I use Gmail every single day and have never once had a minute's trouble with it. I mostly use FireFox, but occasionally IE or Opera and there are no differences that I've seen between them.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:15 pm

Karbon wrote:I use Gmail every single day and have never once had a minute's trouble with it. I mostly use FireFox, but occasionally IE or Opera and there are no differences that I've seen between them.

Nor had I untill friday evening.

This post is not meant to be a slam at GMail. No defence of it is necessary. I know many many happy gmail users - i was one until friday. But searching various forums has convinced me that my experience is by no means isolated and I'm merely passing that along. I'm by no means looking to start a GMail good/bad war:). Three days without access to email tends to make one cautious. Others may benefit from that, but I sincerely hope they don't have to:)

cheers

Edit - as of this minute, I can access Gmail again. I've changed nothing - it's just working.

Regardless, I will no longer be dependent on it for critical email.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:42 pm

Did you ever try restarting the router?

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:43 pm

rsts wrote:Now just have to select a good e-mail client:)
cheers

Try this: http://www.memecode.com/inscribe.php

I've been using it for a few days and i'm starting to like it more than thunderbird. Its a tiny program for what it does.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:11 pm

Trond wrote:Did you ever try restarting the router?

I went through a rather exhaustive troubleshooting process which included most suggested solutions from vaious GMail problem forums and yes, it did include resetting the router. Along with several different browsers, on several different machines some of which had never accessed gmail before, etc.

I'm not asking for help resolving the problem, in fact, at the moment there is no problem

- Gmail is working again. It just started working again, I did nothing new. It wasn't working at 11AM. It's working at 3PM. I changed nothing, didn't even reboot.

Recommendations for good email clients are nice. I've used outlook and express, thunderbird, foxmail and calypso. Currently foxmail seems to meet my needs, but if there's something really better, I'd probably give it a try.

Thanks again to everyone for their help. I'm not slamming GMail. It's just that based on my experience and what I learned in researching it, GMail is no longer for me.

cheers

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:11 pm

Gmail is beta so all use is at your own risk......

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:38 pm

Kale wrote: Try this: http://www.memecode.com/inscribe.php

I've been using it for a few days and i'm starting to like it more than thunderbird. Its a tiny program for what it does.

Looks interesting. Are you using inscribe or i.scribe?

cheers

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:40 pm

rsts wrote:
Kale wrote: Try this: http://www.memecode.com/inscribe.php

I've been using it for a few days and i'm starting to like it more than thunderbird. Its a tiny program for what it does.
Looks interesting. Are you using inscribe or i.scribe?

cheers

I bought inscribe because i need to setup up mutiple accounts and filters.

It's pretty cool, no install, can run from a flash drive, all mail in one db file, etc..

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:06 am

Kale wrote:*Buffer.l = AllocateMemory(24)
Base64Decoder(@"SW4gbG92ZSB3aXRoIFB1cmViYXNpYyE=", 32, *Buffer, 24)
Debug PeekS(*Buffer, 24)

LOL

Post by **Fred** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:54 am

Num3 wrote:
Kale wrote:*Buffer.l = AllocateMemory(24)
Base64Decoder(@"SW4gbG92ZSB3aXRoIFB1cmViYXNpYyE=", 32, *Buffer, 24)
Debug PeekS(*Buffer, 24)
LOL

+1

About GMail, i got this once as well (script taking too much time), but it seems to be got back to normal.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:03 pm

Num3 wrote:
Kale wrote:*Buffer.l = AllocateMemory(24)
Base64Decoder(@"SW4gbG92ZSB3aXRoIFB1cmViYXNpYyE=", 32, *Buffer, 24)
Debug PeekS(*Buffer, 24)
LOL

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:47 pm

ive never had any problems, but i mainly use pop3 to download emails...
but when i do log in using the web interface, ive never had any problems.

i also have gmail hosting the email for my domain

no probs there either