In the event you usually entry your Hotmail or Outlook account utilizing the Gmail app, there’s a cause you in all probability haven’t seen any new emails right now: Google says it’s investigating a difficulty it’s having syncing with Microsoft’s servers. In keeping with Google’s standing web page, the corporate has been working to determine what’s fallacious since round midday ET, and has been in contact with Microsoft about the issue.

At first look it looks like this partial outage can be a fairly area of interest difficulty — Outlook has its personal app, who’s utilizing the Gmail one? However for a lot of Android telephones the Gmail app is the default mail consumer, and it encourages you so as to add e-mail handle from any service, not simply Google’s. In the event you’ve gone that route, it’s value noting that Outlook itself continues to be working so you’ll be able to nonetheless verify your messages by going to the positioning in your telephone or pc’s browser.

Presently, attempting to load your Outlook or Hotmail inbox within the Gmail app will both simply present your previous emails,or an error message saying that there was an issue syncing the folder and asking you to attempt once more later. The difficulty is affecting “all machine platforms,” in accordance with Google.

Google says the difficulty are with Microsoft’s IMAP servers and that Microsoft has acknowledged that its service can also be not syncing with “different giant mail suppliers” as nicely. Nevertheless, the Outlook Twitter account has seemingly contradicted this by responding to buyer complaints saying “we’re not monitoring any points on our finish.”

Google’s standing web page doesn’t point out any points with Alternate, Microsoft’s e-mail service for companies, and I used to be capable of sync Alternate emails utilizing the Gmail app.