Importing issues for Gmail POP users

in brief Google encountered problems with Gmail on Thursday morning for a "significant subset" of users using POP to get messages into Gmail.

The company posted a notice on its Apps Status Dashboard that was picked up by TechCrunch notifying Gmail users of "difficulties or delays receiving mail fetched via POP from external mail providers to Gmail". The problems began at some point this morning, and a more recent notice said that Google has fixed the problem for "a majority" of users.

Google said a user's emails that get imported from other accounts aren't lost; they're just not making it into the user's Gmail account in the usual fashion, and should be delivered when the problems ease. At some point mid-morning Gmail abruptly dumped a bunch of emails into my Gmail inbox that are usually imported relatively quickly from another account, some of which were over a day old.

At the time of writing, everything appears to be working, but let us know if you're having problems. After a few high-profile interruptions in service during 2009, it's been relatively quiet on the Apps Status Dashboard so far in 2010.

Via CNET.com