You have all of your email for the past X years on your G-mail account. Not only that, but you had another email account setup to forward those emails to your G-mail account, and then you canceled the other email account. But you didn’t care because you had all those emails still in tact safely inside your trusty G-mail account, right? Riiight (sarcasm).
So you try to log into G-mail one day and you get the message stating your G-mail account has been disabled. WTF? “What did I do?”, you think to yourself. Guess what, they don’t tell you why. They don’t warn you, either. This has been happening for a long time, whether you know it or not. It used to be blamed on the whole beta thing so they were not at fault. Well G-mail has been around for a pretty long time now, and Google tends to think they are superior to their competitors and they are so great and everything, then WTF?!
I mean everybody is different when it comes to how much they use email, how important the information stored in their webmail is to them. But imagine a company who is trying to get ahead saving money and uses email provided by G-mail (webmail only, no exchange server or other type). If they have all of their customer email, internal emails, their calendar perhaps, and don’t get me started on using the CLOUD for internal documents, product lists, upcoming events, etc., that would be a NIGHTMARE if something like this happened to one of them. It could mean bad, bad things.
Sorry if I have gone off topic a bit, heh.. Expect a post about CLOUD computing ;)
Anyway, I have researched this myself. It turns out no one has really been able to re-enable their G-mail account once it has been disabled.
The best thing to do when you have a free webmail account is to use an email client like Mozilla Thunderbird (namedrop) or Outlook Express. You just have to log in to your webmail account, go to your account settings and make sure IMAP is on. Actually you can probably go to your Providers FAQ’s, I am almost positive it will be high on the list. This way, when you receive and send email, it is all stored locally on your HD and if anything were to happen to your webmail acocunt, you can just let all your contacts know you have a new email address and you still have your email history backed up. Just make sure you do backups in case you get a virus and have to format or something. This is the best practice. Here is a link to a discussion about people who’s accounts were disabled with G-mail, and if someone finds a way to get theirs back it will most likely be posted here: Here
Good luck, and next time please take my advice.. EMAIL CLIENT+ BACKUP = SLEEP BETTER
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The Lone Mac User - February 1st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Great tip, Google can be EvIl…
jidanni - February 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Yes, even with their best intentions, there is no way they could have
enough staff for a proper customer/staff ratio.
admin - February 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Very true.
mad - March 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
WTF!!!!!????/
Muhammad Yousaf Sulahria - May 28th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Google is disabling gmail account in batch because there servers are overloaded. they are randomly disabling peoples accounts. i know 1000s of peoples whose account get disabled. dont use gmail always use yahoo or hotmail atleaset they dont block or disable you email account.
Shiham - May 31st, 2009 at 7:47 am
My Gmail Id is desabled……..PLC HELP ME
abhishake - August 22nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
my gmail account is not working
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