# Gmail problem.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847 "2005-09-15T20:01:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847/1 "2005-09-15T20:01:33Z")

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This may not be the right place for my question. Is anyone else having problems accessing their Gmail account? All I get is a page that reloads itself every few seconds. I have emailed Google a couple of times but haven’t gotten any responses. I recently listed a bunch of stuff for sale on Craigslist and have 19 new messages and no way to get to them.

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**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847/2 "2005-09-15T20:03:00Z")

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Something similar to that happens to me occasionally, but hitting the Refresh button fixes it for me.

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**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847/3 "2005-09-15T20:03:29Z")

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It is working for me.

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**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847/4 "2005-09-15T20:05:22Z")

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Mine has worked flawlessly

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**Author:** ![Teter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Teter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teter)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847/5 "2005-09-15T20:12:47Z")

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mine is good.

once i had my account set up to “remember me” and i was on a computer with pretty stiff security and a slow signal (floating on a rig in the gulf of mexico) and i was having a similar situation with my gmail account.

so, maybe temporarily modify your security, or try from another computer.

in my case i couldn’t modify the security but i got right in from another computer.  
good luck

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847/6 "2005-09-15T20:16:24Z")

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I’ve had intermittent problems over the past couple of weeks. A few times an e-mail sent to my Gmail account took several hours to get there. And a couple of times, I couldn’t log in for several hours - I kept getting the “server having problems, please try again” message.

But it seems to be working fine for me today.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-problem/321847/7 "2005-09-15T20:17:16Z")

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I’ve had problems exactly like this in the past. Sometimes I just have to wait it out, sometimes it fixes itself.