Email on iCloud not working, AGAIN

This problem might be related to apple released a beta version of iCloud to developers.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/apple-hints-at-ios-6-as-part-of-icloud-beta -preparations/

I'm stuck with no email as well. It worked briefly on my iPhone, but the Mac and icloud.com have not worked all day.

Glad to hear they are admitting to it. I have been spuratic since Wed, and completely down on my computer, iphone, and icloud.com since Thursday night. Needless to say its a major inconvenience as this is my only email account, and its for business. Location: Upstate NY (Hudson Valley)

I'm in the UK to and suffering the same frustrating problem?!!

NO EMAILS!!!

Not working for me either. Hasn't been all day. I'm in Minnesota. Seems alarmingly unfair that all of us are in the clamied less than 1% of users that are experiencing this. I guess you have to be really unlucky to have this problem.

There must be something we all have in common. Were all of you mobileme subscribers before icloud? I've had this address for years going all the way back to the early days of .mac. Anyone else?

I have been a subscriber since the early .mac days as well.

No, sorry. Signed up for a @me.com address in Feb 2011 when I got my iPhone.

same here in fl. pushing to iphone and ipad, but not mac

Same in Russia. Doesn't work on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Web interface (icloud.com>mail) doesn't respond as well. It has been working pretty reliable, with the exception of constantly telling me my password is wrong since icloud was launched. But these past 2 days it has stopped responding almost completely.

Thank god I didn't fully transition to icloud email as my primary email service.

Thanks Apple for screwing your users again. Even Microsoft services are more reliable these days (they have less money and more users than you).

Traveling on business in New Zealand. No mail since yesterday...

Website indicates that we are all part of <1% of iCloud users who are having problems. Helluva way to become part of the 1%. I'm in Northern California, BTW. I am forced to go outside and enjoy a gorgeous day...

I have never seen service down in over 4 years of .mac and 1 year of .me experience.

That system update is saying one and the same all day. Do not believe only 1 % are having troubles . At present in Bulgaria neiter iCloud, nether my ordinary mail works. I am a mac e-mail account user since years and never ever had such troubles, before this supplied iCloud solution !

Hi from London. Problems w iCloud since this morning.... and still.... after trying to reinstall, change passwords, synching .... (what else is a girl to do?) still not working.......... agree w MonicaT as .mac and .me always have been pretty full on reliable... iCloud however more or less frustrating from day one.

Likewise for me. I appear to be 'one of the 1%' as well.

Its frustrating to see the icloud status page claim there was a < 1 hour outage for <1% of users yesterday that was resolved, and only a day later is there a new outage notice up (which appears to have been there for some hours how).

In the middle, it was pretty much unclear how to report such an outage to Apple. My icloud email was unuseable and unresponsive throughout pretty much the entire intervening period (including now).

Now I am seeing the odd incoming delayed email header, but its basically still unuseable.

Not working via my mac, iphone, or directly at www.icloud.com.

What its really surprising to me is the apparent lack of monitoring fidelity at Apple for this service. Clearly the service must be split into many smaller service slices (for availability and load balancing, I'm sure) - and one of those 'slices' is b0rked.

But why don't Apple monitor every one of those subsets of their population automatically (there must be a finite number of those - I'm guessing circa 256)?

Second, why not admit the true extent of the fault on their website? Why claim it was down only briefly a day ago when its basically been unuseable for more than a day?

There may be some sort of mistaken impression tha status page is better when it under-states the extent of issues.

It isn't better that way.

Frustration abounds - including that the current (second shot at) an outage message on the status page has no estimated time-to-repair.

Is there even 24x7 management of this service? It appeared to be ignored (with no outage posted) until daytime in California, throughout the Australian daytime yesterday when it simply didn't work for me, at all.

No apparent number to call, no direct/simple way to report the thing as being down.

I dont *want* to stop using icloud, but if this isn't resolved soon and if it becomes any sort of habit, I'll have no choice but to leave, which would be immensely frustrating.

Back at that status page- I hope someone isn't rewarded for minimising downtime, and hence isn't actively omitting the admission of how bad this really is for the "<1 %" affected, so their manager can pat them on the head and say 'good job, less than one hour downtime for less than 1% of customers, thats not so bad'.

Its so bad.

Hi, I'm in UK, I've had poor or none-existent email service for about a day.

BTW 'less than 1%' of customers = about one million people!