Overview

• Gmail experienced significant email delays affecting certain users on Thursday, with emails sent between 11:30 AM EST and 2:00 PM EST either not going through or being significantly delayed.
• Google reported the issue at 11:30AM and stated that it had been resolved just after 2:00PM, but warned that older emails could take hours to be delivered.
• Google suggested that Gmail users could retry sending any emails that had not gone through during the affected time frame.
• Outage tracker Downdetector reported that at least 700 people experienced issues with Gmail.
• Google is conducting an internal investigation of the incident and will publish an analysis in the near future.