UPDATE: The issue has been resolved.

When I was about to reply a relatively important e-mail to my school teacher, I couldn’t do so on my Gmail. “Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists.” Contacts down, which means I can’t send emails to my contacts. Just like the previous outrage, many people complained about the failure of the mail service on Twitter.

What surprised me was the folks at Google said on its App Status Dashboard that Google Mail is only affecting ‘a small subset of users’, although the figures might be in hundreds of thousands or even millions.

If you’ve an urgent mail to send like this Twitter guy, you can try accessing Gmail via IMAP.