Topic: System

From our side, it won't be a moment too soon when we move to our new servers… In the space of a couple of weeks, we have had a disk crash (they're fully mirrored and backed up, so there was no impact on the service), and now (from 6am yesterday, until a few minutes ago) a switch failure – In simple terms, it meant that one part of our system could not talk to another. Words will be had with our current service provider, fear not.

Today we did a major update to MailSpaces. Here's the main changes for both users and administrators of spaces.

You may have noticed a new look and feel to mailspaces.com. We have been working away in response to the helpful feedback we have had from our users, to improve the user experience. At the same time, we have put a lot of work into the "intelligent" side of the procuct, which after all is one of our major USP's...

A running stream of consciousness set of ideas about what you can do with MailSpaces, apart from just set up an e-mail community

Lots going on around here. First off, we're moved from Islington to Camden. It is of course entriely co-incidental that I used to live in Camden (which I loved), and that the office move has knocked an hour off my travel time. Second, and possibly more importantly, we're working hard on a new release, which we hope will be out on MailSpaces.com in just over a week.

Nigel goes completely mad, and tells you how to hack MailSpaces for your own personal e-mail. Handle with care....

That the system will be down for a major hardware upgrade tomorrow from about 9am UK time for roughly 6 hours.