Peter Stathakos - Stack Of Toast

I agree, GMail shouldn't be wearing the beta badge anymore. But Hotmail isn't perfect either. Here's my beefs:

http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2007/05/03/112217.aspx

Hi, every time i try to open my gmail account, it prompts saying that it's an insecure website and gives you 3 options, to either not continue or continue and risk your computer, and other third one that i know doesn't apply to me

so what's going on? i rely on my gmail account for business and personal use, and it's really inconvinient to have this error for the last 5 hours!!
can you please explain??

Hi Masha,

I don't think that it's Gmail giving you that message, that's probably coming from Internet Explorer 7. IE does not like something that about the Gmail site and is raising this warning to you in the case that you might be going to a bad or malicious site.

If you're sure that you are going to Gmail's site and are not being redirected somewhere bad, then it's probably safe to ignore the warning. If you're at all suspicious about it then it's better to make sure you're actually going to Gmail, the address should be http://mail.google.com

Good luck.

I'll tell you what's wrong with gmail:

1. They deleted all my messages from my inbox, so i lost everything, virtually. Yes I looked in all folders, ran a search for the missing messages, did everything i could to find them, aside from nailing flyers to trees and posts in my neighborhood.

2. I contacted gmail (through some long roundabout process that takes you back to the same set of questions until you're ready to throw your computer across the room, easier done if you have a laptop) and guess what? They asked me to change my password. Big help.

3. I changed my password, but the account wouldn't accept it and kept reverting back to the old password. Yes, i followed all the steps, I am not a moron.

4. I posted my queries on the gmail help discussion group and couldn't log in to respond because guess what? My account doesn't even exist anymore. It's gone. Poof! No account with that username exists. That means that i no longer have a gmail address, I cannot access my contacts, and people sending me emails at the gmail address are wondering what the hell happened.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Aside from my accumulated bad karma, that is.

Please I want to know what happened to my older gmail account rodoblanco@gmail.com

Gmail is still screwed up. What can I do to fix it?

Gmail is the only browser I use for all my day to day work I receive from abroad. What happened to it. Now I am totally confused not knowing how to proceed further. It is the outcome of years of browsing and now all are going to the dustbin. It's is quite unfair to discontinue services just like that without prior notice or warning. shit

have not been able to open my gmail acct for 2 days

I can't open my gmail today. Yesterday I could open it with no problem.

This worked for me:
- Log off from a google page that works - google.com has a sign off button at the top right.
- Go to gmail.com.
- It will ask you to sign in. Do so.
- Cross your fingers and say "work for me too! work for me too!"

my gmail displays my name as efjjamros@gmail.com and i can not get any email, my box is always empty, and how do i change my email address, can not talk to anyone.

Gmail could be really good. It's so close.

My main complaint is that it's so non-intuitive. For example, I simply wanted to remove a contact from one of my groups without deleting that person's info from my contact list. There's no simple way to do that.

Even when I try the "Remove From..." option in Groups view, nothing happens. The name remains in the group that I want to remove it from. So, I tried "Delete Contact", hoping it would only extricate her from the particular group I was trying to edit.

No such luck.

I completely lost one contact because I deleted her from my contacts list, thinking I was just removing her from a particular group. Meanwhile, the next time I wanted to remove a contact from a group, I had to delete her completely from my database and then re-enter her information all over again so I could put her name in the one group I wanted her to remain in.

That's just but one example. All too often, things that should take a few clicks take me much longer to figure out (if I can figure them out at all). All my other email services work fine and do what I expect them to--why not Gmail?

So far, Yahoo! Mail has my vote as the best. At least, the one you pay for does (I have it with my Verizon account). Not only is the online interface fast and intuitive, but it plays so nice with my Blackberry (another minus for Gmail).

-- Mike

I had my g-mail address changed from lufllane@sbcglobal.net
to luflane@sbcglobal.net but the change still had an extra l
in it. Please help me get this right.
I also paid for the change

I keep getting

Internet Explorere cannot open the internet site http://mail.google.com/mail/
Operation aborted

This has been happening for the past 2 days, and has occured randomly over the past two years or so since I joined Gmail. Why is this always happening. I have some very important emails that I need to open. As a result, I've opened a netscape account.

Try the old Google interface
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1
it worked perfectly with me

i have disabled my account i want use again this account.

Yep, the "old" UI (https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1) works!

so hard to sign in could not get through. some time it works i can open my mailbox after read my email then i sign out sign in with diff email i couldn't..i cant read my important email very bad for my business because i thought Gmail is a good one really f**ck me up these days. i have tried to contact gmail but it does not work!!!! then have gmail team for what!!!!

Some Internet Explorer 7 users are reporting the error message "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://mail.gmail.com/mail/. Operation aborted." If you're experiencing this problem, please use Mozilla Firefox or the older version of Gmail.

**new version of Gmail available for Firefox2 only thats why you need to download to your computer.

1.download Mozilla Firefox2, go to www.mozilla.org/products

2.download one of the program they provide then all ur problem will be gone. it work for me eventually!!

good luck!

In the last a couple of weeks, I keep getting this error message when send mail. "Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#008)". Also the speed is very slow too. Not sure, they are improve the gmail or just make things worse.

I couldn't able to open Gmail in Internet explorer

Iv'e tried for the last four days to get to my emails, but can't.

i'm not at home at present, but i have never had any problems reading emails.from here

I have been using Gmail now for 5 years, and never any problems but recently it became really slow and slower. What is wrong with gmail????

No one to reach from them too! No customer service at all. Pretty poor for Google and the reputation that they have.

I am dissapointed

I have been trying to open my gmail internet account this morning to no avail. a messagr of "redirectig" has been appearing and a customer error message to google appears on the screen. Please let me know what's going on.

Thanks

Samir

I have not been able to receive any e-mail on my gmail or send any e-mails on gmail. What shall I do?

I am having connectivity problems when all other web sits are fine please can someone assist me.

When I try to open gmail, it directs me to google. I use Internet Ex. But I also tried Safari, and that will not work either. What do I do? I need my gmail! =*(

tihs gmail is to long it should be scorpioman@gmail

I have run my virus protector, and everything that I could think of to open my gmail account, however, I keep getting "cannot redirect message". what else should I do.

I am becoming thoroughly disgusted that I can not use my gmail account. It worked fine only a few weeks ago, but now it's not working. Help

wtf ...???
I will lose my job over this....f....k

WTF why cant I acess

I have a gmail account that I can not access and I am not pleased. I will inform all my contacts to my hotmail account and good bye goofle and gee I wish myemail account would work.....

When I try to log in to my gmail account I get this:

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So, google, fix this already!!

I can'not open my gmail.

I cannot open my gmail account 2day. i can not even get into the sign in page. yahoo mail does not work eithr.

Rosy, it's the same for me. Even to extend it further Facebook, Hotmail, Yahoo E-mail, and GMail do not work for me. What the crap is going on.

wow this is new... googlemail has a expired certificate.... I don't know about you but this don't look expired to me

Issued to: www.google.com

Issued by: Thwate SGC CA

Valid from 5/3/2008 to 5/3/2009

Not working still for me. 2nd day in a row.

Guys...do yourself a favor pull all your e-mails from the server and back it up...cause GMAIL IS GOING DOWN!!! I could say many other things about this service but I'll rather keep it short and sweet.

Jaxx-69 I wish you would elaborate on the subject!

this all just b******t and it's not in the least bit convenient!

WHats wrong with gmail today. Worked fine last night but today I can't even get to the log on screen.

Nothings wrong with gmail...

I think you guy's should subsribe to the google RSS feed, and stay up to date on the gmail changes...

If you keep trying to login when the changes are going down google will slap you and make you look like a fool!

Give it some time!...

Gmail is AWFUL lately!!! It is my mail email and I have not been able to access the page at all this morning or yesterday morning for several hours!!! WHAT is going on?

Even AOL is loading right away, and the infamous "gmail" will not even direct me to the login page!! Brand new computer, no virus's, perfect internet connection...Im very annoyed!

I am unable to switch between two gmail accounts. Never had this problem before; it always defaults back to one account.

For the past few days, Gmail has been almost crashing for me. And it is happening on both my work computer and my home computer. New messages do not automatically show up in my inbox and many times now, I've had to close the page and reopen another to send or even open up emails. The page will also not refresh. I keep getting a "still working" message at the top of the page and I eventually get tired of waiting and have to close the page.

Is anyone else experiencing this? What is the problem?

Thanks.

My Gmail was also giving trouble, and is fixed now. I just did a soft reset on my broadband router and now gmail is much more responsive. I guess they must have changed a couple of things in the server that confused my router :-)

Ps. Also clear the following:
1. C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temp
2. C:\Documents and Settings\Terry\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
3. C:\WINDOWS\Temp
4. C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch
5. Delete all "KB files" (windows updates) - these files waste space and is not needed unless you want to uninstall your updates which is highly unlikely...
6. Also run a reg cleaner if you have one
7. You can check for Spyware if you have anti-spyware removal software.
8. Check for disk errors.
9. Now defrag your O/S drive

This should speed up your PC and sort out problems!!!

G-Mail in not working properly. It freezes up at startup and runs so slow that I have to force it to close. WHATS GOING ON WITH THIS MAIL SERVICE?????

HOW DO WE REPORT THIS TO GOOGLE??????

today, it's a disaster.

This the first time that I've had trouble with my gmail.... people have ask me if I am getting their emails and I have to answer no. so what is wrong that I am not receiving my emails... now I am going to ask them if they are getting my emails.... I always thought gmail was the best but now I don't think so... please tell me what is happing ??????

Why do they tell me "the URL is too large"? I never had trouble with them before....maybe I'll have to change my email address.

i had he same problem and this is the only site where it was discussed ?!? ... the only thing that worked was using
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https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1
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to log on ... thanks to whoever gave that solution

I FINALLY have figured out what I need to do--in order to access my gmail account. For about a month now...I've been attempting to sign in to gmail...but what has been happening, is when I try to get to the gmail site--to sign in--the page gets stuck--and won't load the gmail sign-in page...Finally, I gave up...But today I wanted to see if I could get into it yet, but I still had the same problems...HOWER, I DISCOVERED HOW TO FIX IT!!!
***THIS IS WHAT I DID IN ORDER TO GET TO MY GMAIL ACCT:
I thought that maybe it was perhaps my firewall, so I disabled my firewall--temporarily, then tried again to sign in, and BAM....IT WENT STRAIGHT TO MY ACCOUNT!! I was relieved. I didn't wanna leave my firewall off, so I went back and enabled it...And fortunately, I'm not having any issues regarding loading the gmail page anymore! Hope it works for you people too!!

i can not txt 2 mobile phones like on yahoo and it makes me mad and if u could it would not be free but on yahoo it is free why

My gmail account does not log in as the website says certificate error. Is it safe to log in even though the internet explorer says "not recommended"?

my gmail account does not open

i tried to go into my email account,but the loading bar stops at the ends.....i try to click on it and reload but it doesn't work. what should i do?
p.s. i dont know what a fireball is so i don't know if it is that

Gmail is sucking today. Everytime i go to login, it takes a long time, freezes, then the window shuts down.

can't log on to get Email messages(inbox)

I can get to google and navigate to other sites just fine. New computer. 8 gig or ram quad core processor. It just freezes. This is my main business account. I cannot get my messages at all. This has been happening for days!

why is it that every time i git on gmail an try to sigh in and it does not work so i do what it says and it still does not work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gmail is down, yet again... Error 502 message!

its down again :((((

yes down again indeed how frustrating!!!
from holland

I can't believe gmail's been down for this long. I'm deactivating my account as a result and going with a new emailing system. This is just too unreliable.

Any word on how long this is going to take to get back up?

Agreed. I've about had it with gmail freezing up, "oopsing" and generally just sucking. does anyone know if hotmail, etc. is any better?

It's up and running again! That's great, I really was going to look into a new email account. Gmail it is though, they pulled through!!

Gmail is down again! For the past few hours I've not been able to get it to respond. (I'm in California, but when I set up my account I was living in France, so I have no idea which server my mail is on.

Funny thing, though -- I can pick up my gmail through my cell phone, and also through iGoogle. The only problem with iGoogle is that I can't do spell check, italicize, change fonts, etc. But it's 20 times better than nothing.

Is anyone else having the same problem?

Mines driving me bananas ,i cant send a 3mb mp3 ,it keeps saying, cannot connect 2 gmail,,!

Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#008)cant send any attachments in gmail. this sucks. anyone no why this keeps happening?

Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#103) retrying.....

WTF is going on?????????????

can't get my gmail to open, doesn't load at all it just starts me over at the login page.

can't get it on my iphone or my mac. can get it on windows though.

I cannot find my gmail

It seems that Gmail is being truly fucked over this week also! I cannot get into email full stop!

I can't access my gmail today 31 Oct 09. It tells me the URL is too large, whatever that means. Maybe it's because it's Halloween? Yesterday it was fine. Help!!

Gmail won't load here either today 18 nov 09. What's up? Is it that hard to make it stabile? Not the first time this has happened... Making me regret switching from Yahoo...