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Gmail hit by a second outage within a single day
« on: December 16, 2020, 11:17:47 AM »
Gmail is suffering its second outage in 24 hours, with users able to access their email but unable to send to other Gmail users or are experiencing unexpected behavior.

In BleepingComputer's tests, when sending an email to a Gmail (gmail.com) address, you will get an immediate delivery failure message, stating "Address not found."

The full error message that people are receiving is shown below.

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550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at http://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser

However, sending emails to GSuite customers who use custom domains is not having any problems.

According to DownDetector, a service that allows visitors to report service outages, the Gmail outage is predominantly affecting users in the USA. At its peak, DownDetector reported over 17,000 users affected by the outage.


DownDetector map for Gmail outage

Google is aware of the issue and has been posting status updates about the outage:



With the latest status update, Google states that the issues has now been resolved. If you are still encountering problems, please let us know.