Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Another week, another e-mail snafu

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Except this time, it is Yale's fault and not Hotmail's. Many Elis woke up this morning surprised to find their inboxes completely devoid of new mail, the result not of summer doldrums but rather a faulty Yale e-mail server.

Early Monday, one of the servers that handle's Yale e-mail failed, according to Information Technology Services officials, and as a result no e-mail messages sent to students, faculty members or staff whose mail goes through that server have been delivered over the past day and a half. Mail sent to the affected users — several thousand in total,...

#1 By 2010 6:15p.m. on July 21, 2009

"If you are on another serve, you are just really unpopular."

Ouch :(

#2 By y'10 10:28a.m. on July 24, 2009

this is unacceptable. people who are applying for graduate school rely on their email communication. losing a day and a half's worth of emails means losing potentially important information being sent from the school to the student's inbox.

#3 By y'11 3:35a.m. on August 2, 2009

chill out y'10

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