MacNN readers continue to report problems with Apple's last week):

[Rich Dean] "Over the last 2 weeks in particular, Apple's .mac mail service has been just horrific. Actually, I wonder if this email will actually get to you. Today, many, many people are getting outbound mail bounced and get the following error: 'Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed' You can see the thread here if you have a .Mac account (support oddly requires that you log in, then paste the url into your browser...) Yesterday, mail refused to send at all unless you repeatedly clicked 'send.' And the mail server refused connections on port 25. Apple says everything is just fine (all systems are online and operational), but clearly that is not the case. I've never had such an unreliable email provider before.

[Bill Gunty] "Every email I have sent in the past 24 hrs has not been received by the recepient. I have just started to get emails in my inbox that all say the same thing. '... Deferred: email server: No route to host
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours. Will keep trying until message is 5 days old.' I have gotten 2 of these so far, and it has been much longer than 4 hours since I sent these emails. The emails are also going to different servers in different parts of the country, so it should not be a routing problem. These problems with sending mail are really starting to get on my nerves, although at least now .Mac is telling their members that the mail isn't getting delivered. There is nothing mentioned on the .Mac Support forum, though, aside from the thread that I just posted."

by MacNN Staff