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27/06/2008
Inbound Mail Delay - Resolved
Updated 6pm - All back to normal.

There is currently a delay on inbound mail delivery due to an issue with the spam filtering system. All email is arriving but is entering a queue for spam/virus scanning. Engineers are investigating and we hope to restore service as soon as possible.


09/06/2008
SMTP Re-enabled
18:20 - SMTP has been re-enabled. Many thanks.
09/06/2008
External SMTP Temporarily Disabled
18:00 - We've taken the decision to temporarily disable SMTP sending from clients such as outlook so that we can quickly clear any mail delayed from the weekend's spam flood. The spam attacker is still trying to get to our servers and slowing things down. Outbound SMTP will be back online again shortly. Thanks for your patience.
08/06/2008
Spam flood stopped
20:35 - New inbound mail has been routed promptly since about 6:30pm today. Previously delayed messages will be delivered in the next hour or so.
08/06/2008
Mail Delays - Spam Attack
Dear Members - just an alert to say that we are currently experiencing a spam attack of several tens / hundreds of thousand emails. This is being dealt with but meanwhile you may experience delays in receiving email. We'll update as soon as we have further progress to report.
02/06/2008
Servers Online
18:05 - We have been informed that some rack access switches at the DC failed and were immediately replaced with onsite spares. Access has been restored - please refresh your page to access webmail.
02/06/2008
Network Problem
17:50 - The servers are all still operational meaning there weas no power issue. The problem appears to be on a network router within the data centre. Onsite techs are investigating and will report back asap. Thanks for your patience.
02/06/2008
Email Offline
 We've just had multiple servers go offline at our datacenter indicating a probable power or routing failure at the hosting facility, we'll keep you updated with information from the datacenter as we hear it.
28/05/2008
System Online
16:45 - Disk storage arrays all back online, webmail and client access has been restored. All email received during the last 90 minutes is queued on a backup server and will be delivered shortly.
28/05/2008
System Down Update
16:10 - Apologies for the delay in updating you. The server is back up but we are waiting for the disk system to re-mount which is taking some time. Will update you again when we have further information.




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