My email provider's server crashed at approximately 1 p.m. yesterday. I have been unable to send or receive email since then. My two biggest clients use the same email provider, so I am unable to use those email accounts.
Life without email, even as short a time as it's been, is interesting. Luckily, I have nothing that I absolutely must send. On the other hand, I have several submissions under consideration and am expecting responses this month.
If an editor sends an email that bounces, will they bother to pick up the telephone? Past experience says they won't, even though my telephone number is on every manuscript I send. So, I'm left wondering: am I missing sales?
5 comments:
Hope not.....also hope you get it back soon.
Email came up this morning. No incoming mail should have been lost. Though some important personal emails were delayed, I had no mail from editors or clients waiting in my inbox.
Good news. Every outage that I have had like yours I always lost some incoming e-mail--even when they told me no or it initially looked like I had not. Hope your outcome stays way better.
"Server" - like singular? As an IT guy, I am outrageously offended. Even my home network has redundant storage!
Apparently, the backups were corrupted. Not being an IT guy, I don't grasp the full extent of the problem, but I know our provider was sweating bullets until all of his clients had email service again.
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