Icloud email down since friday

is anyone else having issues with their email? I am getting a password error all of a sudden on all devices (iphone, upad, mba and imac).  I changed my password and can login on to the icloud site so I know thats not the issue.  Started a chat with apple support on Sunday afternoon, who told me there was maintenance happening and that service could be down for 24-48 hours from friday and that service would be back up sunday night.  Guess what..........we are now at end of day monday and service is still down.  Is anyone else having this issue? or is it just me?

I'm been a paying mac.com customer for years.  Nice of them to convert to a free service but 'service' has gone down the tubes.
Getting right to it:
- Mail went bye bye on Saturday night
- Spent 8 hours yesterday researching trying solutions
- 6:30pm last evening got appt at Genius bar at my local Apple store
- Full hour there (45 mins of which was on the phone with specialist after specialist)
- Ultimately, they said it is being escalated to a super-dooper specialist and they will call me today at noon Eastern (umm... an hour ago)  NOTHING
Would be nice if:
a) acknowledge that they have a problem; instead it's "we never saw this problem before"
b) system status was updated and accurate
c) a way to get back in touch with Apple, no ticket #, no phone number nothing
[the part you can take from this] I've tried everything and CAN get onto iCloud just fine, can view calendary and phonebook just fine (in the iCloud).  The problem is obviously that their Mailserver is offline.
I work in IT and deal with DR situations, scheduling migrations, etc. constantly so understand the difficulties; If it was indeed system maintenance, notice would have been handy; if it was a failure, I would think that the service would be back by now; if this is actually a cloud, they ought to be able to bring the workload up elsewhere.
I will update this with the Apple response once resolved, hopefully it will help others but based on what I've read it will just magically start working at some point in the future.

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