Desperate to access your Gmail during today’s outage? Consider accessing your Gmail via the IMAP protocol. Here are instructions on how to configure IMAP for various clients. Unfortunately, you will have needed to enabled IMAP access first, which can only be done via Gmail Settings.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Gmail via HTTP is down but IMAP works
On Tuesday, September 01, 2009, many were experiencing errors accessing www.gmail.com or https://mail.google.com/ via a web browser. Thankfully, IMAP access via my iPhone still works.