are apple email servers down now?

Accord to Apple - Support - System Status web page iCloud Mail server might be down in some areas! so if down with you then Use https://www.icloud.com/ and get your email there for now!

icloud.com seems to be hosed, as well.

edit: guess not, but verification takes forever

second edit: icloud mail not working for me at icloud.com. get an error message,