Gmail Down September 1 2009

Gmail users were unable to get to their accounts on Monday as an outage struck the Google e-mail service.
“We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail,” Google said at 11:12 a.m. PDT on its Google Apps status dashboard after it discovered the error.
At 11:28 a.m., some good news arrived: “Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future.”
Most Gmail users were unable to get to their accounts on Tuesday as an outage struck the Google e-mail service. Google said service returned to normal at about 2:40 p.m. PDT for most users.
"We're aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail," Google said at 12:53 p.m. PDT on its Google Apps status dashboard after it discovered the problem.
The problems appeared to affect the Web-based version of the service, but affected accounts could be reached--at least sporadically--using third-party e-mail software that used the IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol, interface. Google provided instructions on how to do that here