Users of America Online's e-mail service grew anxious Monday when access to their email was disrupted. AOL's Mail Blog cites scheduled maintenance though the time required for the work seems to have gone longer than expected.
AOL warned warned users in another blog post made late Monday night that some will continue to be affected by the outage.
Update on Mail Issues
Posted Jan 24th 2011 9:41PM by Frederick van Johnson
Dear AOL Mail users,
Some of you continue to be affected by today's mail problems. Unfortunately the issue persists, and has taken us longer than expected to resolve. We understand this is a tremendous inconvenience, and we're working hard to correct this as quickly as possible.
We will update you as soon as we have more details, and a fix.
Again, we're truly sorry for the inconvenience, and we appreciate your patience. If you have any questions about this issue please use the AOL Mail Community Support Forum.
Sincerely,
The AOL Mail Team
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