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Heads up: global Gmail failure
Steve_Trevor 815 reads
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If you have Gmail or are trying to email someone who has it...

Starting at around 4:30PM ET, Gmail suffered a global outage.

A catastrophic failure at Gmail is causing emails sent to Gmail to permanently fail and bounce back. The error message from Gmail is the following:

550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.  

This is a global issue, and it impacts all email providers trying to send email to Gmail.  

Because Gmail is sending a permanent failure, other mail servers will not automatically retry sending these messages (this is standard practice at all email services for handling permanent failures).  

At this time, little can be done until Google fixes the problem. You can attempt to resend the messages to Gmail users when Google has fixed the problem. You can find the latest status from Google's status page:  

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab

inicky46 61 Reviews 81 reads
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36363jensen 4 Reviews 87 reads
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I would think something more like a massive LDAP or Directory Services database crash that replicated to other servers making the email database unusable.

 
The attack on the government agencies has been going on a while and I think was more about getting info about vaccines and money related.  Of course perhaps Gmail also uses the software that was targeted so....

DaveMogal 74 Reviews 90 reads
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For gmail and other social media services.  We don't know right now how extensive the security breach is.

DT_lover 188 Reviews 80 reads
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I never had gmail.  I still use my hotmail and yahoo from the previous millennium for personal use.  I do my hobbying with Protomail.

Steve_Trevor 86 reads
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JohnMiller867 97 reads
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Hello, buddy use proton mail, Outlook, Yandex Mail.

team_rocket_qwerty 88 reads
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A massive db crash replicating? I thought replication of db is precisely to preserve data if there is a crash on master replica, but what do I know. Lol.

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