Gmail had two outages this week that delayed emails

Gmail skilled some points with delayed emails twice this week: on Thursday and once more on Friday.

On Thursday at 12:31PM ET, Google wrote on Gmail’s Workspace Standing Dashboard that “clients impacted by this problem may even see delay in sending the emails,” however at 5:03PM ET, the corporate posted an replace that signifies issues had been fastened.

The Thursday points affected not less than two of us right here at The Verge. Earlier that day, emails despatched from our private emails to our work accounts took some time to indicate up. Weirdly, emails from our work emails to our private Gmails despatched simply wonderful. 9to5Google reported the other, discovering that non-public emails labored as anticipated whereas Workspace account emails weren’t arriving as anticipated.

On Friday, Google reported in a 2:24PM ET Gmail standing message that e mail delays popped up once more beginning at 1:52PM ET. These points had been resolved extra shortly, with Google confirming at 3:36PM ET that issues had been fastened.

Downdetector confirmed that greater than 700 folks reported points with Gmail on Thursday, and on Friday, Downdetector studies topped out at a little bit over 100,  so there could not have been widespread points. However for individuals who had been coping with issues, it was in all probability a ache — particularly in the midst of two US weekday workdays.

Google didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Replace December 1st, 4:13PM ET: Added particulars of the Gmail outage on Friday.