Gmail is once again having some issues. When I woke up, I noticed that all of my new e-mails were indicating that they’d already been read when I checked from my iPhone. The problem was, I haven’t read any of them yet. I e-mailed Larry to ask if Gmail was down for him too, and he told me that he’d seen on twitter that exchange was having problems. Since I use exchange with Gmail currently, that clearly was the issue. Looking at my iMac, everything seemed to be fine. A few hours later and it still isn’t working properly. I checked in with Larry, and he indicated that his most recent e-mail on the iPhone was from 8:27 a. m. when in fact it was now 11:15 a. m.. His iMac, on the other hand, showed all of the new e-mails. Yes, it’s just another day in Gmail land.

Fortunately there is a bit of a workaround. If you’re currently using exchange on your iPhone to access your Gmail account … don’t. Turn off the exchange e-mail, and go into the e-mail setup wizard and create a Gmail account. Preferably use IMAP in order to set it up, so that whatever you do on your iPhone will be reflected on the server. Once you’re done setting up the IMAP account, make sure that the e-mail exchange account is off and the new IMAP account is on, and you should be good to go. No you won’t have push e-mail, but at least you be getting your e-mail.

Later on, when Gmail exchange is working again, you can just swap back. But don’t delete that IMAP account; it will likely come in handy again, soon.

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