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 Status Dashboard that “customers impacted by this issue may see delay in sending the emails,” however at 5:03PM ET, the corporate posted an replace that signifies issues had been mounted.

The Thursday points affected a minimum of 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 point out up. Weirdly, emails from our work emails to our private Gmails despatched simply fantastic. 9to5Google reported the opposite, discovering that private 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 rapidly, with Google confirming at 3:36PM ET that issues had been mounted.

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

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

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