http://www.entangledstates.org/2006/12/ ... and_e.html
In sklep:Since June, he was told, Earthlink's mail system has been so overloaded that some users have been missing up to 90 percent of their incoming e-mail. It isn't bounced back to senders; it just disappears. And Earthlink hasn't mentioned the problem to these affected customers unless they complain. The two groups affected are those who get their mail with an Earthlink-hosted domain and those with aliased e-mail addresses like my friend's Blackberry.
Lp, RomanI've pretty much given up on email from my ISP. It makes no difference which one I'm using at the moment. I've had much better luck getting my own domain (...) and then setting them so that email for those domains is sent to a service provider that specializes in email.
The two that I specifically use are Fastmail and Tuffmail. Fastmail works great for individual accounts and is relatively cheaper per year. Tuffmail is great for business email accounts (it handles multiple users on one domain more easily) but is a little more expensive. Both are less than $200/year with all the bells and whistles. (When one depends on email, that's a bargain for spam free, reliable, industrial strength service.)
Perhaps Earthlink, Verizon, Cox, etc will get their system fixed. But rather than wait around on it, look into getting an email account from one of the above - or even from Gmail. It makes life every so much better.
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