A Gmail outage was delaying emails for a few hours
Gmail experienced some issues with delayed emails for a few hours 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,” but at 5:03PM ET, the company posted an update that indicates things are fixed.
According to that update, “the issue with email delays was mitigated for the majority of affected users at [2:45PM ET]” and that “a few users may have observed delays until the full mitigation was done at [4:15PM ET].” Google says it plans to publish an analysis of what went wrong after it completes an investigation.
The issues affected at least two of us here at The Verge. Earlier in the day, emails sent from our personal emails to our work...