#google resolves 10-hour issue that prevented Gmail from syncing with Outlook
If you typically access your Hotmail or Outlook account using the Gmail app, there’s a reason you probably didn’t see any new emails last night: Google had an issue syncing with Microsoft’s servers. According to Google’s status page, the company had been working to figure out what was wrong since around noon ET on Wednesday, before fixing it several hours later.
At 9:57PM Wednesday evening, Google said it had resolved the issue. “The Gmail sync issue with Microsoft servers when using IMAP is now resolved. Thank you for your patience while we resolved the problem.”
At first glance it seemed like the partial outage would be a niche issue — Outlook has its own app, so who’s using the Gmail one? But for Android phones the Gmail app is the…
