Gmail’s spam filter crashed, and Google has no timeline for a fix

Gmail users woke up Saturday to chaos: promotional emails flooding their main inbox, spam warnings plastered across legitimate messages, and Google’s normally reliable filters completely out to lunch. The outage started around 5 AM Pacific and has left millions of users manually wading through the digital clutter that Gmail is supposed to handle automatically.

The problem goes beyond annoying marketing emails. Users are seeing alarming banners on messages from trusted senders warning that “Gmail hasn’t scanned this message for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software.”