We have most folks moved over to the newer authentication scheme and will be doing the actual hardware switch tonight. It's exciting because we'll be giving ourselves tons of headroom as compared to the current system and with that extra processing power we'll be trying out more aggressive spam filtering techniques to reduce the noise in your mailboxes as well as increase your access speeds.

We'll be accepting mail throughout the hardware switch but in order to keep things synchronized properly we'll turn off the ability to check mail which should last for appx. 90 minutes. Hoping for sooner than that but we're giving ourselves a bit of a buffer. This will also affect the ability to add/remove/modify email accounts.

If we run into any notable problems we'll post here but with our prep work I'm fairly confident things will go smoothly.

Thanks!
-tom

UPDATE: We ended up with about 35 minutes of downtime for checking mail. All systems appear to be functioning properly and queued mail has been delivered. Thank you as always for your patience and certainly let us know if you have any problems: admin@vpop.net