ICloud Mail Outage should cause minimal damage

I am among the throngs of disappointed users who finally got iCloud mail service back within the past few hours.
Just a note to everyone that outgoing email servers will typically make attempts at delivery every hour for two or three days before notifying the sender that delivery failed. Given that the outage here was less than two days in duration, everyone should receive all of their emails, albeit with  a significant time delay.
If some impatient servers gave up after one day, then the sender might question the error message and resend the message.
On the whole, email loss should be minimal.
Nevertheless, iCloud service needs to be far more reliable than this for anyone to use it as their primary email account.

I have a similar issue, in that my email has been down since yesterday. None of the test emails I have sent, including one just sent, have shown up. I can sign into iCloud on the web, but it is not synchronized with any of my other devices, nor are any of them synchronized with each other.

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