Gmail hit by message delivery delays, close to 50% of users affected
A bug bit Gmail on Monday and almost half of the webmail service's users have been affected by the problem, which causes email delivery delays and problems downloading attachments.
Google first acknowledged the problem shortly before 10:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time and has been wrestling with it ever since, according to information on the Google Apps Status page.
In an update posted at around 2 p.m., the company disclosed that "less than 50 percent" of users had been impacted, which can safely be assumed to mean that at least 49 percent of users got hit. Gmail has more than 425 million active users. In the latest update, posted at 4 p.m., Google said Gmail service had been restored "for most affected users" and that it expects to have the problem solved for everyone affected by 7 p.m. That's three hours longer than the previous resolution estimate.
