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Apple Says iCloud Mail is Currently Down for Some Users [Resolved]
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My gosh you had me jump right into my contacts and reminders then - a small heart palpation. I'm sorry to hear that's happening, I hope you can get it all back up!
Apple will send an email when the issue is solved 🤣
My apple email is down too. When i try to send an email i get an error message “Cannot Send Mail. The user name or password for iCloud is incorrect.” I never got that message before and I was able to send emails from my apple email yesterday. 🤔
This is the first and only issue I have ever had with Apple email. I have always found it so much better than either gmail or yahoo mail. Does a much better job at filtering out spam
Whatever happened to uptime being a measure of a service? I hope people lose their jobs due to this incompetence.
Over the weekend I had issues with sending mail. I wonder if I was an early canary in the coal mine from when it first started throwing errors? Guess I should've reported it but I was having a getaway weekend with the Mrs.
No, they got rid of the magnetic power cables, remember? He tripped on it and it knocked over an entire series of rack mount units and they're having to rebuild the array of spinning storage from backups.
This is happening too often these days when users like me depend on it a whole lot. Mistake that I moved over to MobileMe since it’s inception thinking the product will be better than Gmail.
Yeah looks like its back. I didn't receive any mail, but the error is not there anymore when checking and it says Just Updated.
I've been using the service since it was .mac, and I don't think I've ever suffered an email outage - maybe I'm just lucky though.
Let’s say you have a service that advertises 97% uptime. There are 8760 hours or 525600 minutes in a year. At 97% uptime, you’d still expect 262.80 hours or 15768 minutes (approximately 11 days worth) of downtime each year. Let’s bump it up to 99.9% downtime. That’s still an 8 hour workday of downtime per year. Plus, uptime is dependent on downstream uptime and can also be impacted by natural disasters, out of cycle emergency patches (like the recent remote code execution patch Microsoft put out), malware, infrastructure attacks, etc., plenty of unpredictable events. Imagine a server farm in the World Trade Center on 9/11, there’s no way the firm with those servers could have anticipated reliability issues due to terrorist attacks.
Uptime isn’t really a science, and you could have multiple days worth of issues and still advertise uptime figures > 95%.
Same here. Always interesting when I’m in the Apple Store and the employee see the @mac.com email. Same response every time: “oh, you’ve been around for a while”.
No, I pay GoDaddy for webhosting services that until recently included professional grade email hosting too. Nothing was FREE by any stretch of the imagination. You pay for it all in one package. But GoDaddy outsourced the professional grade email hosting to Microsoft and their Microsoft 365. Now I still pay GoDaddy the same amount of webhosting, but I don't get the professional grade email hosting in that package. Instead I have to pay Microsoft money to get my professional grade email hosting. THIS IS NOT free services by any means. So your analysis is way off and incorrect....
I was also one of the "some users" here in The Netherlands. The system status on Apple's website showed all green however. Was down for 2-3 hours.
What do you use for email currently?
iCloud Mail has been strangely unstable the past couple months…I’ve noticed a definite uptick in downtime issues.