Blogcritics: Comments on Fmail

Comment by dakirw

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:43:01 EST

Quick update - looks like gmail will work fine if it's in https mode, for what it's worth. It still doesn't work in regular http mode, but messages can be sent successfully in https.

Comment by dakirw

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:10:52 EDT

It's only started recently for me. I suspect that the corporate firewall at work is what's doing the problem for me. It's happening with both IE and Firefox. With the same browsers (on the same laptop), I get in just fine from home. Right now, I'm getting the error message when I try to send a message. Makes the account less useful - yahoo mail works fine from work.

Comment by squirrel

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:46:58 EDT

p.s. that's how I found this blog. i was googling the "oops..." gmail error.

Comment by squirrel

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:46:13 EDT

happens all the time to me, and I've only been on gmail for less than a month. sigh ... i'll have to reroute all those email that I was getting (but not reading) through gmail.

Comment by Scott Pepper

Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:48:52 EDT

Not blaming you, Curt. I could very well encounter this same problem next time I try to log on -- this is just the first I've heard of it from any source.

Comment by CW Fisher

Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:28:54 EDT

Well, Scott, maybe you gave them a more favorable review. I may have been selected at random for failure. Or maybe it's all my fault. Blame the victim? Is that how it goes? ;)

Comment by Scott Pepper

Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:16:25 EDT

I've been using Gmail for almost three months as my primary email account and have not once encountered the error message you describe, much less anything approaching a 60% failure rate. All in all, I've found it to be far more stable than my other free accounts at Hotmail and Yahoo!, which are frequently either very slow or down entirely.