Comments on: Why Free Email May Not Be Such A Good Idea, Especially When You Are Locked Out of Your Account

By: Natali Ardianto

Natali Ardianto — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:14:30 +0000

I haven’t been able to access my gmail (natali.ardianto@) for over a month now! It says:

Sorry… account maintenance underway

We’re currently performing maintenance on your account. You won’t be able to log in while maintenance is underway, but your account data and messages are safe. Unfortunately, we can’t predict exactly how long this will take.
If this maintenance lasts more than 24 hours, please contact us at gmail-maintenance@google.com.

When I send an email to that gmail-maintenance account, all I have is an autoresponse. Really sucks since I use that account for all my mailing lists and backups.

By: jamesgbennett

jamesgbennett — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:42:34 +0000

I think we are ALL missing the point.

HEY GOOGLE, PLEASE SEND ALL OF US FORMS TO FILL OUT IN CASE OF HIJACK.

I never got that original # on ANY official gmail accounts.

Thanks.

By: Derek Punsalan

Derek Punsalan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:29:08 +0000

deadsunrise, duh. Why didn’t I just think of doing that? Now I have no more excuses. I guess I’ll go back to eating up some of my hosting bandwidth for personal email.

By: john jones

john jones — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:19:02 +0000

Seriously ask yourself why the major corpeates dont use google app’s because its shown itself to be just as unreliable as a hosted system and NO CONTROL whatsoever they control the system you are simply making use of it which is fine if you agree but that moment will come when you dont for whatever reason agree its too late

if you care about your data you keep it safe within your control

how you do that is up to you

regards

John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:01:38 +0000

I dunno. I use a Zimbra provider… Zimbra seems to fit my life perfectly! Then I use my hosts email as a backup.

By: NetOperator Wibby

NetOperator Wibby — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:56:41 +0000

That’s impressive backup man. BTW, we have the same first name, lol.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:53:04 +0000

Well, Gmail is my backup. I have it get my email from my other accounts, then i download those (yay pop email) to my computer. By the time I read my email, it has been stored in three places (original account, Gmail, PC)

By: NetOperator Wibby

NetOperator Wibby — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:30:22 +0000

Whoa, I didn’t hear about this. Should I ever become locked out of my GMail account, I at least have an EMail account included with my website. I have unlimited EMail address signup capability [no idea why].

By: josue salazar

josue salazar — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:56:19 +0000

i host my email with google apps, and go through imap. if i cant log in, i have backups and would change the dns records and have my email back.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:39:50 +0000

It’s always good to build redundancy into any system. You can feed Gmail to a mail-client and save all the messages there. Or you can set it up to forward it elsewhere. I don’t think your scenario will ever happen, but I agree that it’s better to be a little paranoid than too complacent.