The September Disaster
During the third and fourth weeks of September 2006, my NetIdentity webmail service became spotty, and I began to get the following error message instead of my e-mail:
Error while establishing a imap connection as myaccount@mydomain.com on n103.sc1.cp.net:143. : * BYE disconnecting; nested exception is: com.sun.mail.iap.ConnectionException: * BYE disconnecting
Then on the 26th, somebody at Tucows hit the "Enter" key for the new system, resulting in a 10,000-car pileup on the Information Superhighway. All I could see on my webmail for the next six days was the now-infamous "5 minute message":
Please accept our apologies for this delay. You've caught us in the process of automatically migrating your existing email from our old email service to our new one. Under most circumstances, this process may take up to 5 minutes. If you have a large amount of email stored on the mail system, this migration may take considerably longer (up to one hour per 300MB of mail stored). The migration of your data will only happen once during this upgrade. We appreciate your patience.Details of this disaster have been chronicled on Wikipedia.
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