No email this morning 10 November
Whilst I agree almost entirely with much of what TOWNMAN says ... I think the annoyance is perhaps more down to being over-optimistic and disingenuous in service status reports etc 
For instance, there would appear to be a 50% chance of getting pointed to a non-functional HTTP or SMTP server at the mo because half of those allegedly available are either not accessible or not accepting connections. If, as it would appear is possibly the case, there has also been issues with PN accepting incoming mail, then it is almost inevitable that some mail will have been lost. Not all senders will retry at all let alone retry for long enough. Commercial mail that was refused by PN servers or not responded to at all is more likely than not to have been lost. Some mail will be received again later and/or eventually get dequeued over a reasonable period of time depending on just how much got stashed away rather than being delivered to the recipients mailbox almost immediately.
How exactly does all that stack up with reports just saying "email login problems" "some delays" "most customers no longer being affected" and such like ?
FWIW, the test emails that I've sent out via the one working SMTP relay server were delivered immediately to non-PN recipients although there was some quite considerable delay between connecting to the server and completing the upload of the message. A delay that I've only noticed happening over recent days/weeks and one that has slowly been getting longer every time I send mail ! I've yet to grab incoming mail received since Tuesday and establish what has or has not been lost but I'd put money on finding some expected stuff not being present.
