Google’s Gmail which servers as an email client for more than 100million people has suddenly stopped working.
According to Techcrunch, the service is down in “multiple countries” and having just tried to access my account locally, I see it’s also down in South Africa.
fringsters subscribing to Gmail notifier via fring, will therefore not be able to receive notifications until Google’s servers are up and running again. I bet the guys over at Google are working around the clock to get this problem sorted and hopefully they will soon have it up and running again.
For more info see the official Gmail blog.
At the time this post went live there was still no official responce via the Gmail Blog.
UPDATE 1. Google’s comment on the outage:
Since about 2 p.m. Pacific Time today, many Gmail users have been unable to access their email. We are very sorry for this interruption in service. The issue is being caused by a temporary outage in the contacts system used by Gmail which is preventing Gmail from loading properly. We are starting to roll out a fix now and hope to have the problem resolved as quickly as possible. Even though you may not be able to get to your inbox right now, your mail is safe, including new incoming messages.
We will post an update in the Gmail Help Center (http://mail.google.com/support/ ) when more information is available.
UPDATE 2. Google fixes the problem and issues an apology. Don’t worry Google we forgive you 
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