Does your Google-hosted webmail look funny since last night?

[Ichinisan]

Google hosts mail for my employer's @numail.org domains. One of our users just told me that his "Settings" and "Sign out" links disappeared from the top of the webmail page.

Since our company switched to Google mail hosting, I've noticed that each user randomly has one of 2 different interfaces. One looks just like my Gmail account, and the other looks a bit simpler. The simpler version has a plain "Settings" link where the other interface shows a picture of a cog. I switched to a test mail account that has the simpler interface and noticed that the links were there, but they were invisible (white text on white background). Some alternate themes make the links visible again.

Google's help system isn't much use. There was no appropriate category to select and, after filling out way too much information, the submission failed with: "Oops! Try again in 30 seconds. We don't know what went wrong."

As ALWAYS with this kind of thing, the whole form was blank when I clicked back.

 

[Sluggo]

Funny strange, or funny ha-ha?

 

[SpatiallyAware]

And people wonder why most decent companies are moving away from hosted mail like this.


Good luck, hope you have better luck with google enterprise support than I did with postini after google bought them.

(Roughly quoted)

"We're aware of the outage but will not divulge any information on when anything will be up, or any info whatsoever past acknowledging it is in fact down. You can read the outage report once everything is back up"

 

[DougK62]

It's just an updated interface that they're slowly rolling out to everyone. My account has been on it for a while. No big deal.

 

[0roo0roo]

not just enterprise i guess, everyones getting a "new look", and it looks like shit.

don't be evil?

how about don't be like george lucas

 

[Glitchny]

It's the new layout of gmail getting pushed to everyone. You can theme it and change, big improvement.

 

[Anubis]

It's the new layout of gmail getting pushed to everyone. You can theme it and change, big improvement.

this

you have been able to mess with it for months and test it out

 

[Shawn]

I switched my account today. It kinda sucks, but once you change the theme and change it to condensed it is a lot better.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Mine looks the same as it has for some time now. I've had that little cog wheel for a while.

I do have a theme set up so maybe that's why it hasn't changed much.