That's 3 strikes, and Gmail: you're out. I'm moving my domains off gmail as the primary MX.<p>Is there a viable alternative to gmail for conversation view and search?
My Gmail is working considerably better than my access to HN recently.<p>The safest course would be to keep some other email domain, download it locally with whatever email client one prefers (as I have long done) but have everything forwarded to Gmail. That's what I did after a local computer crash hosed my access to email for a while. But now I like accessing my Gmail through Gmail's interface, EXCEPT for the lousy way that Gmail implements adding new names to address lists for mailing to multiple people at once. I've had no service interruptions at all the last few times Gmail service interruptions have been in the news.