I am beginning to loose faith in Google’s services, perhaps they are getting too big for their own boots and letting quality and engineering standards slide.  There was a time one could always rely on Gmail but increasingly over the last year there have been numerous Gmail outages.

At the moment I cannot send/delete/view emails on either my Google Apps or personal Gmail account.  As email is vital to my business this is most unacceptable, these problems have been going on for 5 days now, I tried the usual troubleshooting such as disabling Gears and Labs, alas to no avail.

In the end I fell back on my in-house SMTP server running in tandem with Gmail so I can at least get mails out to clients and other contacts.  Of course not everyone has the luxury of their own mail server and I really feel for those who are currently totally without email.

Any clients who are using Google Apps who are affected by this outage can contact us to setup a temporary webmail account on our data-centre so they can send out emails for the duration of this  outage.  You will still receive mail on your Gmail account, but can send from http://webmail.bluestar.ie.