I have be an advocate of Gmail and cloud computing for quite awhile but this appearing on my screen this morning gave me quite a start! My Gmail Account had been locked down for unusual activity? I can assure you I did nothing unusual! Now I know Gmail is still in beta (has any other Google project had a longer time in beta?), but even so I, like many others, I have come to rely on Gmail web mail as my main email client. I may now need to rethink that! I still don’t know what made this appear and after attempting to login again I was thankfully able to get right back in…whew, dodged-a-bullet! Was it a glitch? a bug? I’m not sure, it was just scary!
Gmail Lock Down
Hey Russ,
You might want to check out Gmail’s recently added ‘offline’ mode. You can enable it in the Gmail Settings ->Labs page. I’m not entirely sure how it works but it might provide some more piece of mind. Here’s a link to an article about it: http://lifehacker.com/5140668/gmail-goes-offline-with-google-gears