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   iCloud Mail Outage Lasts Over a Day

   Glenn Fleishman

   iCloud's mail service was unavailable or spotty for about 30 hours
   ending this morning to what Apple describes on its [1]iCloud status
   page as '1.1%' of its users. On Tuesday, that number was listed as
   '<1%'. The outage, unexplained so far, prevented access via email
   client software and the iCloud Web site.

   Service was 'restored for all users' on Wednesday morning, Apple says,
   but many users report that incoming email is still unavailable. If
   Apple queued and didn't deliver incoming messages, it may simply be
   working through the backlog or still dealing with issues related to
   server storage. If it deferred messages for users, depending on the
   mail server attempting to send a message to an iCloud user, it may be
   retried within a few hours or bounced if deferred for more than 24
   hours.

   Apple promised during the worst of the MobileMe transition to
   communicate better and more fully about problems. Apparently, that was
   a short-lived situation. At least the status page provides some
   information.

References

   1. https://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/

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