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WTF is wrong with hosted gmail?

August 14, 2007 | mark | Technology

I can’t log in to either of my hosted gmail accounts. Anyone else?

UPDATE: I contacted gmail support and apparently they occasionally lock accounts due to suspicious activity. I think I had two different hosted gmail accounts open in tabs in the same browser. Very suspicious.

Their suggestion: contact them. The response: occasionally we lock accounts – see our help page for detail. The help page suggests you contact them.

So I’m stuck in a loop and it’s pissing me off because I haven’t had access to mark at linebuzz.com for going on 16 hours now.

If you’re thinking of moving your corporate email to hosted GMail, think twice. You may be up the creek for 16 hours waiting for a locked account to timeout.

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My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.